By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, we read Parshas Pikudei, completing the second book of the Torah, Sefer Shemos. The final pasuk of the parsha tells...

By: Rabbi Benjamin Hecht Shemot 40:35 states that Moshe Rabbeinu was not able to enter the Ohel Mo’ed for the cloud was upon it and...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Rachmanah liba boyeh” “The Merciful One desires the heart.” (Talmud Sanhedrin 106b) To do mitzvos with heart, with love and compassion. Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb This week’s Torah portion, Vayakhel, (Exodus 35:1-38:20) begins on a familiar note. After all, it was just last week, on...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Though I walk through the valley overshadowed by death, I feel no harm, for You are with me.” (Tehillim 23:4) “Va’tilokach Esther,...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb As a person who likes to see the connections between the Jewish calendar of holiday celebrations and the weekly Torah...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Mishehnichnas Adar, marbim b’simcha. When the month of Adar arrives, we increase our simcha. Does the onset of Adar being instantaneous happiness?...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb My interest in the relationship between a person and his or her clothing goes back to my early days in...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This past Shabbos, we blessed the new month of Adar. The month we celebrate the miracle of Purim. The month we...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb My grandmother was one of the angels. Like every Jewish grandmother, she loved each and every one of her grandchildren....

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin It was the mid-1940s. The horrific days of the Holocaust were coming to a close, yet the cruel acts of Nazi...

By: Rabbi Aron Tendler There are families whose hold on Judaism and Jewish tradition is so tentative that the word “holy” is thought to be...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin I recently heard a true life story that spoke volumes. It was in the mid-70s. A young successful entrepreneur went to the Lubavitcher...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Incredibly, the portion is entitled “Yitro” rather than “Moses” or “The Ten Commandments”. The reason for this begs an answer. The...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Vayehi beshalach Pharaoh es ha’am, And it was when Pharaoh sent out the nation…” (Shemos 13:17). The Talmud teaches that when...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It is a familiar domestic scene, one that we have all experienced. The family is about to leave on a...