Inspiration 1710 articles

Not Herzl, nor the Biluim, and not the brave pioneers of the First and Second Aliya can be credited with being the sole precursors of the return to Zion, which led...

Not too long ago I found myself in Zichron Yaakov on business with a few coworkers. I hadn’t been there since the summer of 2002 when Zahava and I visited this...

Shalom, Always in our thoughts, as the anniversary of our son’s death approaches I feel the need to write, as we experience the turmoil in Israel in these very difficult times....

At some point in our learning of the various halachot (Jewish laws) my brother and I, both newly observant, realized that the upcoming holiday of Pesach (Passover) might be problematic. The...

The sun shines with the same warmth on the gutters as it does on the palaces, just as it rains with the same force on the prisons as it does on...

Holy and Secular: How were the frogs distributed throughout all of the land of Egypt? Rabbi Akiva gives us a very amazing explanation. “There was one frog, and the Egyptians would...

Rachel just doesn’t get it. I’ve explained it again and again. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A chance to become a part of Jewish history. To not just live as a...

A Lesson For the Children – One day a Jew arrived to see Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. He was a simple but very rich man, a great philanthropist and a...

“We Do Not Know the Purpose of One Moment of Life” (quote by Rabbi Ezriel Tauber) Terri Schiavo died almost two years ago after being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS)...

As Pesach draws closer, we get more and more engrossed in our “Pesach cleaning.” The Torah prohibits us from having any form of chametz (leaven) in our homes on Pesach and,...