By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Shavuos is in the air. Z’man mattan Torahseinu. The Yom Tov we celebrate the giving of the Torah. Our receiving the...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, we begin the 4th of the Five Books of Moses. This Book is also known as Sefer...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Parshas Behar… The mountain…. Har Sinai… Mount Sinai. As Shavuos is approaching, the lessons of Sinai are ever so relevant and meaningful. The...

By: Shlomo Katz Parashat Behar opens: “Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying, ‘. . . When you come into the land that I...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Ever think it’s too late…. I can’t start over again… how do I even begin? Rabbi Akiva teaches us otherwise. Rabbi Akiva was...

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...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin We are living in the world of Oct1ober 8, the aftermath. While October 8 is often understood as being synonymous with...

By: Rabbi Label Lam And he shall take the two he goats, and place them before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Have I got news for you… Want to hear the latest… Did you hear what she did? Do you know what...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Most of us are under the erroneous impression that loshen hora constitutes only that which is gossip and slander, but if...

By: Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky How Does One Maintain the Vibrancy of Torah? The Torah tells us that Moshe officiated as the Kohen (Priest) in the Mishkan...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin The Midrash relates an inspiring lesson from Rabbi Akiva, one of the great Talmudic sages. Once, while in the midst of...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin It was a week before Pesach, and my twelve-year-old granddaughter was in a class play. No matter how busy a bubby...

By: Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Parshas Tzav begins with a discussion of two mitzvos related to the removal of the ashes that accumulated on the mizbayach...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Pesach. So many special recollections. Warm memories of family gathering together. A beautifully set Seder table. A bubby’s special Pesach recipes....

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb “There is no such thing as privacy anymore.” “There are no secrets anymore.” These are two complaints that are heard frequently...