As we have explained (see this), on the 17th of Tamuz of the year 68 of the CE, after many months of siege, the...

This coming Tuesday, July 15th, we will commemorate the 17th of Tamuz, a fast-day. Five tragedies happened to the Jewish people on this day. 1. The...

Rabbi Yishma'el haCohen was born in the city of Modena, Italy, in 1723. He was considered the most important rabbi (poseq) of his generation...

אמרו עליו על ריב"ז שלא הקדימו אדם שלום מעולם ואפילו נכרי בשוקIt was said of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai that no one ever preceded...

Rabbi Menashe Setton ( סתהון , also Sittehon or Sutton)  was born in Aram Soba (Aleppo) Syria.  He was a great Tora scholar, well...

In this Psalm David haMelekh prays to God to save him from the hand of his enemies. ה' מָה-רַבּוּ צָרָי  רַבִּים, קָמִים עָלָי. David recognizes that...

ברכת הקב"ה היא שלום, שנאמר  ה'  יברך את עמו בשלום The last berakha of the 'amida, sim shalom, is the blessing in which we ask...

Rabbi Capsali was born in the Island of Crete (today Greece) in 1420.  Not much is known about his early life, except that...

There is a difference in English between killing and murdering. While "killing" is a verb than can be applied to causing the death of...

מודים אנחנו לך The eighteenth berakha of the 'amida, Modim, is the longest one and the main blessing of the third section of the 'amida...