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Not knowing the difference on Purim between Blessed is Mordechai and Cursed is Haman. The greater the difference is between 2 things the more similar they appear on the surface. This...

It is Purim: Don’t get Drunk!! Don’t let your yetzer hara tell you it’s a mitzvah to over-drink. Even in his day, the author of Yesod v’shoresh HaAvodah saw people abusing wine...

Purim is just around the corner, celebrity chef Michelle Bernstein sits down with Linda Gassenheimer to talk about planning your Purim menu in the Premier episode of Food Talk on OURadio.org....

What is so bad about Amalek to the point that we are commanded to destroy them? Amalek represents cynicism which can never be channeled into something good. Rabbi Moishe Lichtenstein’s new...

What’s in a name? Purim. Mention of its name immediately brings to mind a familiar, festive atmosphere and an exciting narrative. Read the text version

Yom Kippur & Purim are 1 holiday – half for Hashem (Yom Kippur) and half for us (Purim). Each parallels 1 of the reasons we sin (yetzer hara, antisemitism). Revealing The...

When Hashem created Adam, it says that he placed him in the garden which He created. Why does the Torah emphasize where Hashem placed Adam HaRishon?

Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that the message of Chanukah is that brute force and finances should not dictate our actions in the world, rather the purity of the spirit, symbolized by the...

The story of Chana and her seven sons is well known. But what is less known is what it says about Chanukah, the Oral Torah, and in particular, the timeless Oral...

The profound thoughts of Rav Hutner Zt”l on Chanukah. Sometimes by “breaking” the Torah, we fulfill the Torah. The forgetting of Torah itself caused new Torah, the back and forth, to be...