SHOFETIM: How Much Do You Charge to Tell My Future?
THE TWO DESIRES
There are two things human beings have always wanted and never been able to have. The first is to know what the...
Rabbi Isaac Delouya (d.ca. 1572), the first Sephardic rabbi in Morocco
Rabbi Isaac Delouya (הרב יצחק דלויה) was born in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century. The year is unknown. Nothing survives...
SUMMARY OF SHOFETIM
The Torah commands the appointment of judges in every city of Israel. Judges must be righteous and impartial, and they may not accept any...
Ten Traits of a Truly Happy Person
More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught that happiness is not something we stumble upon by chance. A fulfilling life is built through...
SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down
STEP DOWN ONE RUNG
Young people all over the world are finding it harder and harder to get married. And in the face of that...
SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM Don’t fall in love with a picture
Our Sages understood beauty in exactly the opposite way from how the modern world understands it.
For Greek culture — and for contemporary culture, which...
SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM ” Easy going”
When someone asks me what matters most in a shidukh — beyond a decent family and compatible religious and moral values — for me,...
TISHA BEAV: What happened on the 9th of Av?
This Wednesday night, July 22, we will begin the fast of Tisha Be'av, the national day of mourning of the Jewish people. Why this...
SHABBAT CHAZON: Does God Reside Only in His Temple?
THE PROBLEM
On the Shabbat before Tisha Be'av we read a special Haftara from the book of Yeshayahu (1:1–27). It is known as "Hazon," from...
The Week of Tisha BeAv: Laws and Customs
From the 17th of Tammuz until the end of the 9th of Av we observe certain restrictions as an expression of mourning for the...
