Parsha

Jewish holidays recount seminal moments of Jewish history. These annual celebrations shape our collective memory just as they animate our common future. The celebration of our history creates eternal...

Saying Berachot, Part 8 Eli: Boker tov, Rebbe. Rav Daniel: Good to see you and all our friends. I’d love to meet all these people in person. When this corona thing...

It’s always a fresh start with a good feeling when we commence the reading of a new sefer of the Torah. It’s hard to believe that in 5781 we’ve...

The wedding date had already been set. Anxiously anticipating this day, the bride and groom shopped for the furniture of their future home. Selecting the couches, beds, and tables...

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin Moshe descending from the mountain, clutching the Divine tablets, is one of the most iconic images of the entire Torah. Finally, after close to 2,500 years,...

By R’ Mordechai Young I remember going to shul on Shavuos night for part of the learning when I was a child. What I remember most vividly were all the...

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin Amalek attacked us at our most vulnerable moment. The cruel guerrilla armies of Amalek were out for blood, viciously assaulting the newly freed slaves in an...

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin The past year shook the world. Humanity faced a pandemic, the likes of which only occurs every hundred years. Locked in battle with an invisible but...

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin There are two intriguing stories about the eternal impact of Har Sinai: one fable about two engagement rings, and one true story about a Chassidic Rebbe...

The parshah of Sh’mos is the story of a galus — of the exile and enslavement of the Children of Israel in Egypt, which our sages regard as the father...