There is an old cliche that goes, “It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it.” While that particular phrase only dates back to the 1970s, there is a much more ancient and Jewish source to this ...

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Elul is here again. For many of us, the cry of Elul can sometimes create an uncomfortable feeling. Here we go again. Will anything be different this time around? Well, recently I saw something that ...

I will let the blade of my sword go dull. I probably won’t even have a sword. I’m turning them in. I’m melting them down. I think there was something about plowshares. Everything will be plowshares.

In Memory of our beloved David Schwartz, who fell in battle sanctifying God’s name, on 27 Tevet, 5784 (8 January 2024). “Le’David Barchi Nafshi” is a compilation of essays written on the weekly Torah ...

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey. Parshas Haazinu: Breadth & Depth in Torah Scholarship. Video Insights from ...

Are any of you familiar with the movie Stranger Than Fiction? In this film, the protagonist, Harold Crick, played by Will Farrell, is an IRS agent, a rational, mathematical sort of fellow. One morning ...

And in Parshas Haazinu we have just that; if we open our ears we can listen to a few select words from Hakodosh Boruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed be He) that are intended as guidance for His beloved ...

Mrs. Raizy Diskind from Flatbush, NY, passed away on Shabbos, Parshas Haazinu, at the young age of 32. Full Story Mrs. Raizy Diskind from Flatbush, NY, passed away on Shabbos, Parshas Haazinu, at the ...