My Perspective

In Ami magazine, Rabbi Yoel Gold of LA wrote about his grandmother who recently passed away.  She was a woman who said the entire Tehillim e...

I heard this remarkable story from an eye witness: She grew up in Strasbourg and lived on a fancy avenue on the fourth floor with her fami...

I was quite disappointed, actually horrified, when I discovered that Eli Wiesel 's Night is listed as "fiction" in the my pu...

In a chinuch article, the author responds to a question about cell phones for a high school student.  He makes reference to the dangers of t...

In a health column in a frum publication, written by a "certified Health Coach," Rivka Segal, the author says when she was studyin...

Psychotherapist, Shimon Russell, in an interview with Ami magazine said, "My first ten years out of college, I tried to do everything t...

There is a frightening Metzudas Dovid in today's haftorah for parshas Korach. In Shmuel I, chapter 12, pasuk16, Shmuel rebukes the Jewis...

continued from previous post also taken from the weekly Shabbos emails This message underlies a famous story told in Maseches Bava Metzia...

continued from previous post I received the following in one of the weekly Shabbos emails I subscribe to: The Vilna Gaon remarked (as c...

I find the concept of koach ha'poel b'nifal intriguing and wrote about it here and here and here.   The Ramban refers to thi...

What should a doctor do when a patient complains of knee problems? What if the patient is obese or heavy enough that it is adversely affecti...

The weather forecast yesterday was for a possible thunderstorm in the morning (which did not happen) and clear for the rest of the day. It...

In Torah Tavlin I read, the Rambam in Moreh Nevuchim says that the foods that we are not allowed to eat are not only spiritually impure, bu...

I just finished reading a book about a slum in India.  The extreme poverty in which millions of people live is quite awful.  However, what s...

I boarded a crowded train and saw an elderly frum woman get on too.  She held on to a pole near me. She looked too elderly and fragile for t...