Posted on 01 May 2008
The lesson Rabbi Akiva learned by looking at a rock gave Am Yisrael the strength to survive.
Rabbi Akiva was forty years old and decided he wanted to study Torah. Thus far his life revolved around caring for the physical needs of the world. Like our forefathers, like Moses like so many great men he ...
Posted on 01 May 2008
Sefirat Ha’Omer: helping us reach new heights
You shall count for yourselves ... from the day when you bring the omer of the waving - seven weeks ... and you shall offer a new meal-offering to Hashem. From your dwelling places you shall bring bread that shall be waved, two loaves... (Vayikra 23:15-16).
A number ...
Posted on 08 April 2008
While visiting London last year, I heard the following story from a 19 year old Jewish girl. She was vacationing in a beach house in Thailand when the Tsunami hit.
Posted on 06 April 2008
Halacha, or for that matter, all systems of law in the world, is based on the concept of reasonable presumptions. In Jewish law this is called the concept of
chazaka– the presumption that what was, still is.
Posted on 17 March 2008
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