Latke Recipes for Chanukah
Consider the latke (Chanukah’s version of fast food). It is, in my opinion, the absolute best-est, most perfect, delicious use for the potatoes, better even, in some circumstances, than the French...
The Enlightening Olive
Fruit ripens and then we eat it, right? Not always. The ripe olive is hard, bitter and inedible. The olives in the jar we bring home from the store have undergone...
Dairy Recipes for Chanukah
One of the lesser know but no less important Chanukah traditions is to serve dairy products (think Shavuot with its long Cheesecake tradition) along with the over abundance of fried foods we...
Variations on the Chanukah Theme: Chanukah Candles & Havdalah
Immediately after Shabbat is over, we shall be confronted with the observance of two precious mitzvot: the kindling of the Chaunkah candles and Havdalah, which marks the end of Shabbat. The...
Chanukah and Independence Day
Is Hanukkah merely a holiday telling us a heroic story of battles won and political victories gained, like the American Fourth of July or the French Fourteenth of July? A political...
Chanukah and The Battle Over Modesty
The Hellenists were trying to destroy the modest relationship we have with Hashem, symbolized by the Heichal and Kodesh Kodashim. The latest episode of The Good Vort, presented by Rabbi Yosef...
The Menorah and The Sukkah
Mishnas Chayim for Parshas Mikeitz & Chanukah – Last week we discussed the famous question posed by the Beis Yosef concerning the duration of the Yom Tov of Chanukah. True, the...
Chanukah and Vayeshev: Hod and Hadar
The transition of Torah from being external to being internal. Understanding the victory of the Jews against the Greeks from a new angle, based on the Pachad Yitzchak, by Rav Yitzchak...
No Favorites on Chanukah! Rabbi Weinreb on Parshat Vayeshev
Envy is surely one of the most insidious of human emotions. It is a self-destructive emotion, because it often leads a person to act against his own best interests, as he...
Chanukah: Miraculous Expansion
Mishnas Chayim for Parshas Vayeishev & Chanukah – Almost as familiar as the wondrous miracle of the Menorah to which the eight days of Chanukah correspond is the Beis Yosef’s question...
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