My Perspective

We are very much results oriented people, which is often quite good and useful.  Then there are times that results are not necessary and jus...

Highly recommended reading is Rebbetzin Samet's, My Father, My Mother, and Me (Artscroll).  In the format she used in her first excel...

I keep going back to the conundrum of hishtadlus as I wrote about: here .  The Chovos Ha'Levavos in the Shaar Ha'Bitachon says, nobo...

In today's day and age, maintaining dignity is not high on people's list of priorities.  People (out in the world) dress in undignif...

The story is told about a Kotzker Chassid walking on the road, trudging along in the snow on his way to Kotzk, when a fancy carriage stop...

Jews all over the world care about the three kidnapped boys.  I am sure of that. That being said, I wonder how many people saw the headlin...

I heard an interesting thought from Rabbi Aharon Dovid Gancz of Monsey.  Someone he was mekarev told him about a problem he had.  The mekura...

continued from previous post According to the Arizal, sweating in the preparation of matzos is a tikun for sin and sweating in the prepar...

continued from two posts ago about Exertion 1) In "Once Upon a Chassid" on parshas Naso, there is the story of an old Chassid...

Chaim Grade (1910-1982) was a famous European writer who wrote in Yiddish.  He grew up religious but later left religious practice. How...

  A number of years ago, someone wrote an article in a Jewish publication about how wonderful it is that we now have the computer capa...

There's a pattern in history which puzzles me. To give some recent examples: Hashem imposes Communism on vast areas which contain mil...

Nowadays, when it comes to test results (and June is around the corner) the emphasis on results is often decried, with the new view maint...

According to the "yeshiva world," the "Yeshiva Movement," as they call it, is attributed to the Gra because his talmid...

follow-up to previous post I have read many times where someone in Eretz Yisrael, when asked about living in a dangerous place or during w...