Listen to the Lights
What do the Chanukah candles tell you?
Category: HOLIDAYS
Who Needs Money?
What a chassid did when the Rebbe was freed.
Like Yom Kippur
What the Alter Rebbe said regarding the 19th of Kislev.
No Time to Sin
The verse (Vayikra 23:40) states concerning the taking of the four species on the first day of Sukkot: “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of the hadar tree,...
The Central Prayer
By Rabbi Dovid Markel In the Ne-ilah prayers on the Day of Atonement, we paraphrase the Talmudic (Berachot 29b) statement: “The needs of Your people Israel are many and their mind is small.”...
Rosh HaShanah – Two Points
The Rebbe once encapsulated the entire Rosh HaShanah into two succinct points.
Motzei Shabbat Slichot
The essence of Slichot reliance on G-d.
The 15th of Av – Negativity and Joy
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Today marks the 15th of Av-a day in which the Talmud (Taanit 26b) exclaims that “there was never in Israel greater days of joy than the 15th of Av...
Three Weeks of Permanence
The Lubavitcher Rebbe explained:[1] The time of the breaching the walls of Jerusalem on the 17th of Tammuz until the actual destruction of the Temple on the 9th of Av encompasses three weeks. The...
Kamza’s Culpability
Although it seems that Kamza did nothing, the Talmud calls the tragedy of the destruction by his name. This article investigates the effects of a father on a child.
