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Parshas Bereishis – The Secrets of Creation

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

Holding Onto Joy: Celebrating Simchat Torah

By: Sara Debbie Gutfreund Jon Krakauer describes reaching the top of Mount Everest in his book, Into Thin Air: “Straddling the top of the world, one foot...

Parshas Zos Habracha–You Can Never Fool G-d

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And this (V'zos) is the blessing which Moshe, the Man of G-d, blessed the Children of Israel before his death. (Devarim...

Parshas Vzos Habracha – Making It by Breaking It

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

Sukkot and Reconciliation

By: Steven Zvi The sukkah commemorates the miracle that God gave us in the desert in the form of the Ananei Ha-Kavod (the Clouds of Glory). These...

The Seven Heroes of Sukkot

By: Rabbi Benjamin Blech Oprah Winfrey always seems to know just what to ask in order to really get to know her subjects. She said...

Parshas Ha’Azinu  – For What Should We Repent?

By: Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane. ztk’l In these days when Jewish blood is spilled like water, there exists a most confounding attitude nurtured perhaps by...

Secrets of the Four Species

The key to joy is success in our relationships. This includes our relationship with other people, with ourselves, and with God By: Shraga Simmons Every Jewish...

Parshas Zos Habracha–You Can Never Fool G-d

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And this (V'zos) is the blessing which Moshe, the Man of G-d, blessed the Children of Israel before his death. (Devarim...

Parshas Vzos Habracha – Making It by Breaking It

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

Sukkos–Zman Simchaseinu; The Time of Our Happiness

By: Torah.org Staff Throughout the works of our Sages, we find that the holiday of Sukkos is referred to as "Zman Simchaseinu," "The time of...

Simchas Torah: Dancing With The Bride

By: Rabbi Yochanan Zweig "The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage to the Congregation of Jacob"(33:4) Simchas Torah is a day in which we...

Understanding the “Aseret Yemai Teshuvah”–Ten Days of Repentance

Edited by: JV Staff (Some of what follows is based on these works: "The Festivals in Halachah," by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, ZT"L, translated by...

Sukkot and the Purpose of Life

By: Rabbi Moshe Gersht On Yom Kippur, we disengage from the normal lives that we live and enter a place of holiness. We don’t eat...

ABCs of Yom Kippur

Guidelines for the holiest day of the Jewish year By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Following the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses pleaded with God to forgive...

9 Lesser Known Facts about Yom Kippur

Here are nine often overlooked facts about Yom Kippur to enhance your experience of the Jewish day of repentance. Dr. Yvette Alt Miller We eat a...

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