by Rav Ephraim Kenig shlit'a Reprinted with permission from Tzaddik Magazine    [October 2011] He [Rabbi Akiva] used to sa...

When one embarrasses someone else, not only does he commit a transgression between man and man, but he also violates G-d's command. ...

I am not a regular reader of Shmuley  Boteach's articles, however it was after I read this one:  Why Did G-d Allow Seven Jewish Childre...

First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tr...

Click on the links below to read the articles: Super Moon tonight Astronomical Events ''Before the Great and Awesome Day of the ...

L''Aliyas Neshama Esther Rivka bas Moshe Art: Michoel Muchnik In recent years the custom for girls to light Shabbos candles b...

Photo: Source unknown Every action we do creates an angel. A good action creates a defending angel, a bad one creates a prosecuti...

"Today, in our bitter exile, there are people who receive ruach hakodesh more easily than in the time of the prophets." [Noam ...

Onaas Devarim – Words that Hurt by Rabbi Chaim Morgenstern It is unimaginable for any G-d fearing Jew to earn a living by chea...

Based on Sichas Shabbos Vayakhel-Pekudei 5748 - Lubavitcher Rebbe G-d said to Moshe: "Go down, for your people that you have ...

אֵלֶּה פְקוּדֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדֻת "These are the numbers of the Mishkan, the Mishkan of the Testimony...." [Pe...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday March 3, was powerful and enthusiastically r...

For Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast a pur-- tha...

Some interesting lectures from Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson Should Netanyahu Address Congress? Purim, Obama, Iran, and Anti-Semitism [the sound i...

[adapted from Keeping Posted with NCSY, Fall 1999 edition and also from Torah.org article by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld] There is a f...

Art: "Key" by Nikoletta Bati "Engrave on it with signet-ring [type] engraving: "Holy to Hashem" פִּתּוּחֵי ...

Something to think about  Once there was a King in Shushan, the most powerful ruler in the world, who had a strong disdain, dislike or ...

Rabbi DovBer Pinson Can we remember past lives? What happens after we die? A glimpse into the journey of the soul on the other side of li...

It once happened in Safed, that a disciple of the Holy Ari had to go on a long journey. Before departing, he came to his teacher for a...

R' Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev lifted his pure eyes to Heaven and said: "Master of the World! You have exhorted us in Your ...

When we speak about ''the end of the world'', we actually mean the end of the concealment.  The Hebrew word '' O...

HT:  Yaak A mysterious sound of the shofar in Ramat Gan. [Click on the EARTH SOUNDS link below to see more shofar noises around the worl...

Chassidut by Rabbi Herschel Reichman Our Sages say that Yitro had seven names . The Shem MiShmuel takes an in-depth look at the name...

Art: Vladimir Kush The manna reminds us that a Jew's food, and his livelihood in general, come directly from G-d, in a manner of &...

[Shabbos Parshas Beshallach is known as Shabbos Shirah, because of the song which the Jews sang to G-d at the Splitting of the Red Sea on ...

By now regular readers will understand how it works.....  the U.S. freezes out Israel, and Hashem freezes the U.S. ‘There will be a price’...

The Kotzker Rebbe said: " Aub es geit nit vi es vilt zich, darfmen vilan vi es geit!" - "If it does not go the way you wa...

If someone is autistic, it doesn't mean that they don't relate to anyone. They might not relate well to people, but to G-d they rela...

What is our purpose in life?  Why is life such a struggle?  Why is my inner self so full of contradictions?  How do I deal with my anger, j...

No Pain No Gain נס - Nes - Miracle ניסיון - Nisayon - Trial " All the affairs of the world, whether for the good or...

Rabbi Mizrachi supplies evidence of the current day signs of Moshiach.  

Rebbe Nachman once told me "When things are very bad, make yourself into nothing. Uhu as es iz shoin gar schlecht, iz min zich gar m&#...