Pesah is less than a month away. The first night will be celebrated B'H Friday April 3rd, 2015.  Pesah's laws and customs are so...

In this Psalms David HaMelekh touches upon a very important and relevant question, even (or specially) for today's society. Can you be a moral...

Rabbi David ben Zimra, known as the Radbaz (רדב"ז aka Ridbaz) was born in Spain in 1479. At the age of 13, when the...

Last week we explained that God is the King/Sovereign of the world. For the people of Israel particularly this name or attribute with which...

Rabbi Shelomo Serilio (שיריליאו או סיריליאו) was born in Spain, before the expulsion of 1492.  From Spain, rabbi Serilio came to Constantinopla (today Istanbul),...

In More Nebukhim, 'Maimonides Guide for the perplexed' in the third section of the book, chapter 51, Maimonides talks about the way of 'knowing'...

Previously, we explained that one of the names by which we refer to HaShem is ABINU, our father. We said that this particular way...

Immediately after the Temple was destroyed the rabbis established a number of traditions that should be kept year round to remember that our Temple...

ישבת לכסא שופט צדק מזמור ט׳ , פסוק ה׳ El Rey David comienza este Salmo agradeciendo a HaShem por Su justicia (9:2-5) "ki 'asita mishpati vedini",...

(Pasuq 2) מה אדיר שמך בכל הארץ David haMelej comienza este Mizmor diciendo que el nombre de haShem, es majestuoso en toda la tierra....

The family of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, came from Portugal.  The famous patriarch of the family, Rabbi Yosef Pinto, established himself in Damascus the year...

יגמר נא רע רשעים מזמור ז', פסוק י This Mizmor describes the Tefila that David compose, before he became a King, asking for HaShem's assistance and...

Today is the Tenth of Tebet. The main event we remember on this day is the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebukhadnezzar,...

Tomorrow, Thursday January 1st, we will observe the Tenth of Tebet, a fast day which remind us of three tragic events (see here).  One...

This coming Thursday, January 1st, we will observe the Tenth of Tebet, a fast day which remind us of three tragic events.  The main...

At the end of the year 167 b.c.e approximately in December,  by order of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King of Syria and so ruler of...

Last week we explained that one of the names we use to referring to HaShem is ABINU, our father.  We said that Yesha'ayah,  the...

Rabbi Hasday Crescas (1340-1411) was born in Barcelona, Spain in the winter of 1340.  He was a rabbi, a philosopher and a statesman. A...

Rabbi David Qimhi explains (6:1) that David haMelekh composed this Psalm of Tehilim at a time that he was very sick.  From the very...

The names by which we call or refer to HaShem have much to teach us about our Emuna. First it's worth noting that by...