Yochanan Gordon: The Purpose of It All
Sukkos and Shemini Atzeres represent the final leg in a journey towards a new level of G-d consciousness that began with the onset of the month of Elul. In...
Yochanan Gordon: Divorce As Prelude to Marriage
By Yochanan Gordon
Many people have written in this publication and others that COVID-19 has rocked many marriages. Maybe it was the time spent together that was usually spent apart,...
Jewish Perspectives on Beauty, Vanity and Plastic Surgery
Despite coronavirus shutting down many businesses across the globe, cosmetic plastic surgery is on the rise. People are tired of being locked up at home and don’t like the...
COVID, Sukkot Highlight Our Struggle With Vulnerability
By Lisa Septimus
Sukkot was less than a week away, and we still didn’t have decisions on some possible programs. “It’s too early to make a decision,” said one shul...
Do You Have Faith in Hashem?
By Mark Dubin
This is a true story. It was not unusual for our phone to ring when a Shabbos or a yom tov ends. My wife, Sherry, picked up...
Rabbi Cohen: The Audacity of Hope
By Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
Fifteen years ago, my life took a detour. I had been married for 15 months, and my first child was born. For most people that...
Musings From Montana: Rocking and Rolling With Mitzvot in the Sukkah
Sukkos is my favorite yom tov. I grew up in Crown Heights, in the presence of the Rebbe, of blessed memory, and Sukkos was a time of communal uplifting...
From the Chassidic Masters: The Story of Your Life
By Rabbi Shais Taub
The Book of Jonah, read in its entirety during the Yom Kippur afternoon services, is the story of your life. This is what the Kabbalah (Zohar...
Yochanan Gordon: Take and Pass
From just about every vantage point, Tishrei is an involved month. It is a marathon month of almost back-to-back holidays. And while we leave this month recharged spiritually for...
Dirshu Yom Limud U’Tefillah Inspires on Chofetz Chaim’s Yahrzeit
By Chaim Gold
What do Houston, Miami, Brooklyn, the Five Towns, and Lakewood all have in common? All of them were cities that participated in Dirshu’s momentous Yom Limud U’Tefillah...