I recently started a weekly post featuring a moral dilemma for people to discuss at the Shabbos table. I email it every Thursday and it has become quite popular here in Baltimore. Many people tell me how their whole family gets involved when the
I have recently put together a multimedia curriculum that explains how the Torah is a system of values that seeks to help perfect our character (midos) and thus collectively perfect and improve the entire world. It explains (based on the approach of Rav S. R. Hirsch) how all of the mitzvos in the Torah can be
During the Holocaust, the Bielsky Brothers, Tuvia, Zus (Zush), Asael, and Aron Bielsky led a unique partisan brigade in the forests of Belorussia. Rather than focus on killing Nazis and Nazi collaborators like other partisan groups did, the Bielskys focused their energies on saving as many Jews as possible. Living hidden in the forests and... Read more »
As a teacher, using an inspirational story to make your point can be very impactful. Rav Yaakov Greenwald once joked to my father-in-law, “Lo hamedrash hu ha’ikar, elah hama’aseh – the ikar is the story, not the teaching.” There is actually a lot of truth to that 
