Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

My short ebook, Zionism - A Brief Overview , is now available as a free download . As a preview, I am including below the table of contents ...

In Daven Your Age , Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein makes a sincere attempt to respond to a well-known dilemma; the fact that many adults have fail...

In the opening chapter of Parshas  Shemos  we read about the beginnings of Jewish slavery in Egypt. One of Pharaoh's main objectives in...

The following material, which was originally written for a Jewish history class in a yeshiva high school, is basically a direct continuatio...

The bulk of  Parshas Vayeishev , and the remainder of the book of Genesis,   is devoted to the story of Joseph in Egypt. After Joseph was s...

The bulk of Parshas Chayei Sarah  deals with the famous story of Eliezer's mission to find a wife for Isaac. The Torah tells us that Ab...

Parshas Nitzavim is a direct continuation from the end of Parshas Ki Savo , which we read last week. The main theme of Ki Savo was the To...

An adult Jew is obligated to obey the mitzvos —the commandments—and is held responsible for his or her actions. A child is not. At what poi...

In Parshas Ki Seitzei  we read of the prohibition of cross-dressing ( Deuteronomy  22:5): The vessels of a man shall not be on a woman, a...

Parshas Eikev  opens and closes with two famous passages in which the Torah teaches us that the Jewish people's entire fortune depends ...