As we all hunker down in our homes, a steady stream of both funny and scary memes making their way across our phones and computers, I thought we would do something a little different for the Shabbos email. In…
Parshat Vayikra תשפ In Proverbs (3:15-18), King Solomon, the wisest of all men, extolls the virtues of the Torah: (טו) יְקָרָה הִיא מִפְּנִינִים וְכָל חֲפָצֶיךָ לֹא יִשְׁווּ בָה (טז) אֹרֶךְ יָמִים בִּימִינָהּ בִּשְׂמֹאולָהּ עֹשֶׁר וְכָבוֹד (יז) דְּרָכֶיהָ דַרְכֵי נֹעַם…
Parshat Vayakhel Pekudei תשפ Although we read about the sin of the Golden Calf in last week’s Torah portion, Ki Tisah, because it is the subject of so much misunderstanding, we should look at the events through the eyes of…
COVID-19 , also known as the novel coronavirus, may have started in China, but to everyone’s surprise it was the US that first implemented the mandatory TRUE implants. Following the US success at putting down the virus, almost every country…
It took Sam Goldstein forty-three years to buy his Mercedes-Benz AMG GT-R. It’s not that the waitlist was that long, the waitlist was only six months, but it took Sam that long to get to the place where he could…
Terumah תש"פ Exodus 25:1-2 "וַיְדַבֵּר ה' אֶל משֶׁה לֵּאמֹר: דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְיִקְחוּ לִי תְּרוּמָה מֵאֵת כָּל אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִדְּבֶנּוּ לִבּוֹ תִּקְחוּ אֶת תְּרוּמָתִי:" “ HaShem spoke to Moshe to say. Speak to the children of Israel let…
An operating room can be a pretty tense and chaotic place, which is why it is no surprise that about 70% of surgeons prefer to have music playing while they operate. Already in the early 1900’s, a Pennsylvania surgeon wrote…
Parshat Mishpatim תש"פ “And these are the laws [“Mishpatim”] that you should place before them”: “And”—Parshat Mishpatim starts off in a peculiar way. The Hebrew text begins with a “ו”, which translates as “And,” a word usually used to connect…