Art: Maronski Our Rabbis have said "This world is like an antechamber and the World to Come is like the palace; prepare yourself in ...

This time in Conklin, Alberta Jan. 12 2012

"Behold! the people, the Children of Israel, are more numerous and stronger than we" [Shemos 1:9] The verse teaches us, said R...

Moshe initially declined his mission saying ''Who am I, that I should go to Pharoah, and that I should bring forth the people of Is...

The Erev Rav, or the Mixed Multitude, seems to be a side show in the exodus story. However, as Rabbi Pinchas Winston explains, they are more...

Jerusalem - A well known Rosh Yeshiva who is also a popular figure in the Sephardi kiruv world had nothing but contempt and scorn for Chared...

World-renowned teacher Rabbi YY Jacobson presents a fascinating class on why Moshe Rabeinu refused Hashem's offer to understand the myst...

Art: Kimberley Applegate Pirkei Avos: Vilna Gaon - Because You Will Die Against Your Will The Mishna in Pirkei Avos [4:22] says that a...

[Source: Likutei Sichos of the Lubavitcher Rebbe] The word "shemot'' means ''names'', as in the verse ' &#...

HT: Miguel ISRAEL is preparing to shut its nuclear reactor at Dimona, where it makes nuclear weapons, because of the site's vulnerabil...

Never one to miss a chance to blog Alice in Wonderland, I couldn't resist this one: A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball...

What a storm.... absolutely fantastic ! Wild storms swept through the central west and Sydney last night, dumping rain and providing a sp...

Jerusalem - Tel Aviv-Yafo [Jaffa]‘s Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau says he was shocked to see a photograph of a Jewish boy wearing a yellow st...

"She sent her maidservant and she took it"   [Shemos 2:5] Chazal inform us that the basket carrying Moshe was too far for Phar...

L'ilui neshamot Zev Yosef ben Sholom z"l and Rachel bas Mordechai z"l Today [11 Teves] is the fourth yarzheit of my sister Ra...

HT Yaak I only have the Google translation, but basically they are saying this is their last message: .......and here we got to the la...

'Zevulun will live by the sea coast....'' [ Vayechi 49:13 ] Zevulun would engage in business and provide food for the tri...

by Rabbi Pinchas Winston Then Ya’akov called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you at the end of...

by Rav Ephraim Kenig shlit'a Reprinted with permission from Tzaddik Magazine [Part 1 can be found here ] Rebbe Nachman describes ho...

by Rav Ephraim Kenig shlit'a Reprinted with permission from Tzaddik Magazine When Hashem examines a soul before it is born an...

Iran tells U.S. not to send aircraft carrier back to gulf after missile test Iran has threatened to take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier ...

Art: Vladimir Kush He saw a resting place, that it was good, and he land, that it was pleasant, and he bent his shoulder to bear...  [Va...

"In the days before Moshiach.......wisdom shall be putrid; the pious shall be despised........." 'Treatment of haredim – l...

Art: Sharon Tomlinson Rachel lost her own spiritual luxury - the privilege of being buried in the Cave of Machpeilah - in order to help...

Yosef the 'Upper Tzadik' and Binyamin the 'Lower Tzadik' A tzadik [perfectly righteous individual] is a person who cause...

Welcome to what could turn out to be the most interesting year of our lives....

Art by Marcus Aurelius In a letter[1] written by the Baal Shem Tov to his brother-in-law, Rabbi Gershon of Kitov, it states: "I a...

Rabbi Matisyahu Glazerson Parts 1 and 2

Rely on nothing and no-one but God. This is true simplicity. Anything else means pursuing a complicated course of action. [Rebbe Nachman...

"Soros' latest Israeli project is a subversive attempt to gain influence and undermine the country" Read the article at: S...

Violent clashes between Israel Police forces and ultra-Orthodox activists amid a public outcry over the exclusion of women from the public s...

It's summer holidays in Australia.... I'm not doing too much typing, so please forgive the lack of Torah posts lately... things will...

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) – A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war...

HUGE surf smashed the NSW coast yesterday, closing beaches up and down the state. At Snapper Rocks, on the Queensland and NSW border, wer...

Brigadier General Vahidi says 'Zionist regime is completely isolated,' threatens deadly strikes from Iran, should Israel attack. Ir...