Post A Renewed Covenant with an Unexpected Partner I bought my house a few years ago. I understand that buying a home is serious business but I was totally unprepared for the thick pile of pages I had… Read More
Post A Nation As Bad As Sodom?? Every year, just before Rosh Hashana (Hebrew New Year), I ask myself why I should work so hard at repenting. How bad were my sins really? I look around and… Read More
Post An Impractical Law With an Invaluable Lesson When my precious young son was ten years old, he came to me in tears. He had just learned the section of the Torah about the rebellious son (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)…. Read More
Post Does God Care About Our Petty Requests? There is a Hasidic story about a king who became angry and banished his son, the prince. After five years, the king regretted his actions and sent a messenger to… Read More
Post Don’t Go It Alone I had a friend named Elyon Shemesh who was a gifted drummer and follower of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (a rabbi and composer). Though born in Israel, he spoke fluent and… Read More
Post Following in God’s Footsteps Kids ask the craziest questions but sometimes they make you think. This is generally what happens when my youngest son learns Torah. He asked me this morning, “What size shoes… Read More
Post Forget Your Past – For Now Fifteen years ago, when I was working as a corporate attorney in New Jersey, I joined a volunteer program in which lawyers helped Holocaust survivors fill out incredibly long and… Read More
Post Compassion in the Most Trying Times Shai was an anomaly in the IDF. The patches on his shoulders had two stripes, making him a captain. But he thought patrols in the desert were a great opportunity… Read More
Post How to Properly Repent Being a father has taught me more about religion than any rabbi ever has. One time, I took my three-year-old boy to the park. He was playing with a friend… Read More
Post How Will We be Remembered? Rabbi Israel Kagan, one of the great Eastern European Jewish leaders of the 20th century, was once cited as a character witness in a court case in Belarus. The defendant’s… Read More