Crying & Tisha Ba’av
This coming Wednesday night and Thursday, we observe the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha Ba’av, the 9th day of the month of Av. Let’s go back to the origin of this day marked for Jewish tragedy and suffering:…
Live from the Catskills: July 19
Live from the Catskills | Mrs. Racheli Indig
The Rise of the Desert Diamond – Parshat Devarim/Tisha B’av
In 1867, a fifteen-year-old South African boy named Erasmus Jacobs noticed an unusual stone lying near the Orange River as it made its way through his father’s farm. It was yellowish, transparent, and attractive enough that he gave it to…
The Three Weeks and Tisha Ba’av 5786
Background We are in mourning. We are in the middle of the 3 weeks, a period of mourning that leads up to and includes the 9th of Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, the day that both the…
Here’s what we’re really good at…Parshas Mattos Masei 5786
Let’s talk trash for a moment. It’s one of the few things that American do exceptionally well. The world will throw out over 5 trillion pounds of garbage this year (here’s a visual to help you grasp that: 5,000,000,000,000 pounds!),…
Filling the Miracle Tank Parshas Matos Masay 5768
Torah, Tefillah, and the Two Fronts of Jewish Survival There are few topics in the Jewish world today that create as much pain, tension, and misunderstanding as the question of army service and yeshiva learning in Eretz Yisrael, the Land…
What I remember from lunch 10 years ago… Parshas Pinchas 5786
For ten years, one million men did nothing but eat, drink, sleep, and lay bricks. Brick after backbreaking brick, mile after backbreaking mile, the million-man workforce built a wall like the world had never seen before. Up mountains, along rivers,…
Brit – Covenant: The Architecture of Jewish Existence
What Is a Brit? A Precise Definition The word brit is usually translated “covenant” — but that English word is nearly as opaque as the Hebrew. To understand what a brit is, we first need to clear away three things…
Parshas Chukas/Balak
Categorization of Mitzos In total, there are 613 mitzvot, or commandments, in the Torah. They encompass much of our daily living; from which animals can pull a plow together, to which foods we eat on varied days. We have different…
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