My Perspective

I heard a shiur recently in which the speaker spoke about respecting shomer Shabbos Jews with different ideologies and lifestyles th...

A letter I wrote to Hamodia four and a half years ago: Dear Editor, Re stigmas - can you please devote an article to the Tor...

Tanach is full of statements warning us to fulfill Torah and mitzvos or else dire things will happen and it tells us that it will be goo...

R' Benzion Shafier tells of going to visit his friend, Rabbi Simes (in picture), who became a quadraplegic as a result of a road acc...

Rachel Calofs Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains is an extraordinary story.  It was written originally in Yiddish by an im...

I'm really enjoying this book, "GPS - Navigation for Your Soul - inspired by the writings of the Nesivos Shalom" (an Artscr...

  I recently heard a speaker ask: Do you think that if they find a cure for cancer, that we will all be able to breathe a sigh of reli...

People tend to refer to something as "hashgacha pratis" (individual, specific supervision by Hashem) when it stands out, when i...

Rabbi Bloch is the rav of the Lakewood minyan in Monsey.  He recently spoke in Flatbush and said that he changed the topic of his speech ...

In the Spring issue of Jewish Action magazine there was a symposium on the Orthodox Family of the 21st century.  One of the respondents,...

This same R' Bensoussan (see previous post) said  that o n his way to or from shul on Shabbos, his father would say to him and his...

In a lecture given by R' Yossi Bensoussan, he quotes a speech that a rosh yeshiva of a yeshiva in Israel says to the boys: ...

I have read more than once, in articles on chinuch, that children sense the truth and that parents and teachers must be truthful with th...

This week, we read about the Para Aduma.  The laws of the Red Heifer are so mysterious that even the wisest of men, King Shlomo, said he...

It has been said that pleasure from material things doesn't last long, ex. delicious food, while pleasure from spiritual things last...