Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

The Sefas Emes , R' Yehuda Aryeh Leib of Gur, d.1905, taught in the name of his grandfather, the Chiddushei HaRim : כי עשר מכות נגד ...

The Talmud ( שבת ל"א ) tells us that when a person passes away and comes before the Heavenly Court, one of the first questions he is a...

In the opening verse of  Shoshanas Yakov , we say, שושנת יעקב צהלה ושמחה בראותם יחד תכלת מרדכי – “The rose of Jacob (i.e. the Jewish people...

At the end of last week's parsha , after Joseph intepreted the dream of Pharaoh's wine steward and told him that he would be freed ...

In the beginning of Parshas Lech Lecha , God instructs Abraham to leave his homeland and to travel to the land that He would show him. God ...

Parshas Ha’azinu is the last Torah reading before Simchas Torah , when we complete the yearly cycle and begin again from Genesis . This sh...

In Parshas Re'eh  we read (Deuteronomy 14:1-2): בנים אתם לה' אלקיכם לא תתגדדו ולא תשימו קרחה בין עיניכם למת: כי עם קדוש אתה לה...

In Parshas Shelach we learn of the incident of the meraglim  - spies - in which the spies sent to investigate the land of Israel returned ...

About 800 years ago, Rabbi Moses Maimonides saw the need for a formal compilation of the most fundamental Jewish beliefs. The beliefs enum...

I frequently encounter people who claim that their basis for belief in God is "faith" or, if they are religious Jews, " emun...

Maimonides and most other authorities consider the obligation to believe in God to be one of the six hundred and thirteen  mitzvos , and un...