(Reproduced from I Have an Amazing Story for You! by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer, pgs. 67-76, with permission from ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, Ltd.) It Ended Up Working Out! I’m going to share a personal story with you. It’s the story of my father and our relationship (or the lack of one, after the divorce), and how after fifty years of little contact and many unresolved feelings on my part, I [...]
When we contemplate the “olden times,” we may do so with a sense of ambivalence. On the one hand, we tend to look with astonishment on the backwardness and inconveniences that characterized life back then, without the technological advances of modern times. On the other hand, the world seemed to have possessed a certain wholesomeness and innocence that appears so elusive in our “sophisticated” society. Perhaps reflective [...]
One of the most well-known passages from the Rambam’s Yad Ha’chazakah features his depiction of the message of the Shofar. As he writes: “Even though blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is simply a function of a Torah directive, it does contain a message by way of allusion; and it says: ‘Awaken you sleepers from your sleep, and you who slumber, emerge from your slumber; examine your deeds, return [...]
This week’s parshah features the long-awaited reunion between Yosef and his brothers. After he revealed himself to them and the dust began to settle (so to speak), Yosef set about distributing gifts. As the Torah recounts: לְכֻלָּם נָתַן לָאִישׁ חֲלִפוֹת שְֹמָלֹת וּלְבִנְיָמִן נָתַן שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת כֶּסֶף וְחָמֵשׁ חֲלִפֹת שְֹמָלֹת – “To all of (the brothers), to each of them, he gave sets of clothing; and to Binyamin he gave 300 pieces [...]
(The following is based on the discourses of the Nesivos Shalom in his Kuntress L’Chanukah.) Perhaps one of the most familiar chapters of mishnayos is the second chapter of Maseches Shabbos, known as “Ba’meh Madlikin” (for its opening words). This chapter, customarily recited during the service of Kabbalas Shabbos, relays the laws governing the lighting of the Shabbos candles. Its beginning section focuses primarily on the materials that are deemed [...]
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