by Eliyahu Berkowitz | f 19, 2023 | Psalms, Messiah
I love reading fiction, especially science fiction, so sometimes my imagination runs far afield. Especially during my Shabbat afternoon nap. Last Shabbat, I was lying on the sofa, unable to move after indulging way too much in Shabbat lunch. I began to drift off to...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 29, 2023 | Passover, Messiah
By Rabbi Elie Mischel Growing up, I waited all year long for the first night of Passover, when we, like Jewish families all over the world, would celebrate the magical seder night. Since my parents did all the cooking and hard work to prepare for the seder, the first...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 16, 2023 | Rosh Hashana, God, Israel, Messiah, Prayer, Purity, Redemption, Repentance
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Some memories stay with you forever. My yeshiva taught Breslov Hassidut and most of the students went to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, praying at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Around 30,000 Jewish...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 19, 2022 | Chanukah, Daniel, Messiah
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Every Jew knows the basis for our system of holidays: They came and tried to kill us. They failed and disappeared in the sands of time. We’re still around. Let’s eat. Indeed, Jacob’s dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder to heaven...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 6, 2022 | God, Ha'azinu, Messiah, Redemption
By Chaim Barzel I recently read a story originally told by Mendy Kofman about a Jewish family that survived Communist Russia and resettled in the USA. Against all odds, this family remained Torah observant in the depths of the most anti-religious empire in the world....
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 4, 2022 | Psalms, Ninth of Av, God, Messiah, Mourning, Redemption, Temple
Reading is magical. Reading can take you places you have never been and show you things you have never seen. It is almost as good as being there and reading fanatics know that in many ways, reading is better than watching a movie. It goes deeper. People who read the...
