This past week’s Parsha, Re’eh, ends discussing the Yomim Tovim; Moshe said to the Jewish people, “V’Simachta B’chagecha – rejoice with your festival” (16:14) What could that mean? It is a very strange way of writing; when we throw a party we rejoice at the party, not with the party. When we go to a […]
Gershon’s situation was really bad. His children had not eaten more than scraps of food in days, the stress was weighing on him heavily. He could barely make enough money to buy scraps of bread each week. When Purim came and the situation had not improved Gershon decided to travel to Koznitz for Purim, to […]
A chasid once went to the Baal Shem Tov and asked, “Rebbe, I really want to see Eliyahu HaNavi. What can I do to merit this?” The Baal Shem Tov smiled, “It is actually quite simple! All you have to do is get two big boxes. Fill one with food and the other with children’s […]
It seems like the world had a good first couple of days, and then, early Friday morning Adam and Chava ate from the Eitz Hadas. This was the beginning to where we find the world in Parshas Noach. People had a complete lack of respect for each other, robbery and murder was rampant and God […]
On Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur and the days in between the Jewish people are doing some major Teshuvah. We stand before our Creator, our Father Above and enumerate our sins, banging our chest in regret for the past and making serious commitments to be better in the future. Our Teshuvah is certainly accepted but this […]
There once was a man who used to visit Rebbe Nachman whenever he came to Breslov. Fortunately, this man’s business become wildly successful but, unfortunately he was always so busy he never came to visit Rebbe Nachman anymore and he barely had any time to Daven or learn. Once, while he was rushing around Breslov […]
We most often hear a person “bench Gomel” when they return from an overseas trip, but according to the Gemara (Brachos 54b) we don’t only bench Gomel when we survive an international flight in coach, a person is obligated to bench Gomel if they were gravely ill and were healed, imprisoned and freed, or survived […]
