There is a question that I find my mind asking again and again. Every time I respond with an answer, the question just returns in another form. The question is “WHY?” Just plain “Why?” Why is my life so hard? Why is my day filled with so many 
This past Wednesday afternoon I was driving home when my nine year old son called me and excitedly told me, “Tatty I have amazing news! Rubashkin is out of jail!” I realized that the great miracle that Klal Yisroel has just experienced was being celebrated by the youth too. I saw it again on Friday night when I came home from shul 
There were two friends who lived near each other. They developed a very close relationship, until one day one of them was forced to move away. As the moving day drew closer and the reality of departure seeped in, the deep feelings of their bond grew only stronger. On the night before the big move the two sat down for a final meal together. They reminisced the years that passed, and they promised each other to use every which way to 
It was the last Leil HaSeder in the home of Reb Shloime Bobover zt”l, and he was very ill and weak. Unlike past years when the Rebbe led the Seder in the presence of thousands of Chasidim, tonight the Rebbe sat in his wheel chair attached to feeding tubes with only his immediate family around him. The family sat 
At the start of Chodesh Elul the Tzadik Reb Itzel of Petterburg zt”l stepped up to the Aron Kodesh, opened up its doors, and with tears streaming down his cheeks screamed out, “Modeh Ani Lifanecha! I thank you Hashem! “She’nasata lanu Chodesh Elul,” for giving us this 
A few weeks ago, a question was raised by one of the mechanchim in our yeshiva on how to respond to a student who asks his rebbe for his thoughts about the presidential candidate Donald Trump. Many of the mechanchim responded that it would be out of place for a rebbe 
