Post Marching to the Messiah: An Invitation from Moses to You Shortly after I got married I introduced a friend to my mother-in-law. Hearing the loaded term, my mother-in-law flinched, not wanting the title with all of its negative connotations. Noticing… Read More
Post Put the Brakes on the Messiah: There are Trees to Plant Picture this: You are out in your garden planting a tree when a big ruckus begins at the end of the block. Your neighbor comes running up, out of breath,… Read More
Post Retaking the Temple Mount: An Unexpected Way Going up to the Temple Mount is, for me, an exhilarating and spiritually uplifting experience. I sense the holiness, the ineffable power of this holy site. I close my eyes,… Read More
Post Second Chances: How the Bible Helped me Find My Wife My yeshiva (a Jewish school for Bible and Torah studies) had a custom that when one of the students got engaged, he would bring food and drink to the study… Read More
Post Shavuot and Jerusalem: Revelation Then and Now On June 15, 1967, Rabbi Norman Lamm delivered a lecture at The Jewish Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was the second day of the festival of… Read More
Post Shavuot and Purim: Receiving the Torah and Saving the World In the story of Creation, God ends every day by noting the day and saying it was good. The formula established on the first day reads, “And there was evening… Read More
Post So you wanna be a King? When Samuel the prophet, the judge and spiritual leader of all the tribes of Israel, grew old, he appointed his two sons to be judges. Unfortunately they were corrupt, and… Read More
Post The Difference Between Politicians and Leaders Government is the biggest business in the United States today, with a recent estimate claiming that over half a million politicians are actively involved in running the country’s local and… Read More
Post The (Failed) Communist Revolution in the Bible Communism didn’t start with Karl Marx. It actually began 3,500 years ago with a different man – Korah. Korah was the wealthiest Israelite alive when God took the Children of… Read More
Post The Nazirite: Saint or Sinner? The Book of Numbers describes the vow of the Nazir (Nazirite). The Nazir is not allowed to drink wine, cut his hair, or come into close contact with the dead…. Read More
