By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Imagine you throw a huge party and invite everyone you know. But this is no “regular” party: It’s one solid week...

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Following on the heels of the High Holidays is Sukkot, a seven-day festival (8 days in the Diaspora) characterized by the...

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons The Torah says: “You shall take... the beautiful fruit (Esrog), a palm frond (Lulav), myrtle twigs and willow branches of the stream...

By: Rabbi Elozor Barclay & Rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger 1) What specifically is forbidden on Yom Kippur? In addition to the forms of work (both Torah and...

By: Tamar Taback Come into the Now Teshuva, repentance, is a miraculous mechanism that was created even before the creation of the world1and is always...

By: Shlomo Katz There are two holidays mentioned in the Torah whose primary significance is not described there. Nowhere in the Torah is Rosh Hashanah...

By: Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffman Parshas Nitzavim contains a section called Parshas ha-Teshuva, The Chapter of Repentance; so called because in this chapter Moshe encourages Bnei...

By: Rabbi Yisroel Ciner This week we read Parshas Ki Savo. “And it will be ‘ki savo’ {when you will come} to the land that...

By:  Larry Domnitch The recitation that accompanies the bringing of the first fruits (Bikkurim) in the times of the Temple from the seven specified species...

By: Rabbi David Bibi Before Times Square became the home of dueling Spider men, battling Betty Boops and pushy Sponge Bobs, all hoping to share...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis This parsha contains the most mitzvos of all the parshiot, and they encompass many areas that prepare us for Rosh HaShana and enable...

By:  Shlomo Katz Rabbeinu Nissim z”l (14th century; Barcelona, Spain) writes that, unlike other nations, the Jews have a dual judicial system. Every nation has...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis The parsha opens with the words, “Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all of your gates.” (Deut. 16:17) There are...

Parshas Re’eh – It’s All in Our Hands By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha it states, “You shall seek out His presence and you...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And now, O Israel, what does God, your God, demand of you? Only to fear God, your God, to walk in...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing....