By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin I was running errands, when a woman I did not recognize approached me. “Are you Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis’ daughter?” When I...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin A mission gone awry. In this week’s parsha, Shelach, we learn of the meraglim, scouts sent to check out the Promised...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb When one reaches a certain age, he does not have to be reminded that his memory is not what it...

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By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Parshas Beha’aloscha opens with HaShem instructing Moshe to speak to Aaron regarding the lighting of the menorah. A task that Aaron,...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha (Numbers 8:1), Aaron is commanded to kindle the lights of the menorah, but a most unusual word...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “V’ho-ish Moshe anav me’od mikol ha’adam asher al pnei ha’adamah, And the man Moshe was the most humble of all people...

By: Aron Tendler This week’s Parsha, Naso, continues the census taking of the Bnai Yisroel prior to their anticipated entry into Eretz Yisroel. The following are...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Choices. Dilemmas. Life altering decisions. Each of the individuals in Megillas Rus is faced with a choice, a decision that would...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Scholars have had a lot to say about the role of aristocracy in the course of human history. Those of...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin We count Sefira day by day, from Pesach to Shavuos, reciting a bracha each day. We are reminded about how precious...

By: Shlomo Katz King Shlomo writes in Mishlei (9:1), “With all forms of wisdom she did build her house; she carved out its seven pillars.”...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Mikrah – coincidence. But we know that there are no coincidences in life. That all is b’yad HaShem – in HaShem’s...

By: Rabbi Meir Tamari When Moshe descended from Har Sinai with the Luchot he had to interrupt the teaching of the Torah he received, because...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha, Emor, tells us about HaShem’s eternal gift to Bnei Yisroel. The gift of Shabbos. “Sheishes yomim tay’aseh melacha, Six...

By: Naftali Reich The essential theme behind the counting of the sefirah is, of course, perfecting our character traits. This is alluded to in the...