How do homing pigeons find their way home? How were seeds created so that humans would help spread them? The great mysteries of biology clearly demonstrate how complicated everything in the world is. It was all carefully designed and exactly suited to its purpose. Everything we experience every day comes from Hashem! Before we read... Read more »
With summer upon us, wouldn’t it be a great opportunity to jump start a Zoom gemara class or chavrusas? Learning gemara is the perfect antidote to the Covid 19 restrictions by opening your students’ horizons and transporting them to a new frontier. Your students will be intrigued by the depth, sophistication and logic of Talmudic analysis.
One of the big questions facing school leaders right now is what things will look like when the new school year begins. No one fully knows whether teachers and students will be able to fully or partially return to their classrooms and, even for those who can enjoy “business as usual,” the atmosphere at school... Read more »
Monthly donations – for those who know how – are the ‘hidden gems’ of sustainable income for some mosdos Torah. Here’s the data from a Network For Good survey: Average monthly online donation is $52 ($624 per year) compared to the average first time gift of $128. The average monthly giver will give 42% more in... Read more »
Teshuva is on the forefront of our collective minds as we near Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Our sages tell us that those who seek to engage in teshuva are actively assisted from Above. (Shabbos 104a; Yoma 38b) Nothing can stand in the way of the remorseful soul that seeks to... Read more »
Elul isn’t meant to be a time of frustration and discouragement. It’s supposed to be an uplifting time. An empowering time. A time when we cleanse ourselves, renew our commitment to our Creator, and transform into better Jews. Many of us dream of an Elul experience like the one described above. We understand how badly... Read more »
Uri Friedman, managing editor at the Atlantic Council, is confronted by “life’s biggest questions” amidst the turbulence of Covid 19 by his five-year-old son, and is hard-pressed for answers. Writing in The Atlantic’s August 2020 edition, Friedman presents his and his wife’s struggle with their Covid-induced home schooling. After weeks of coming to grips with... Read more »
The Mishna teaches that on Rosh HaShanah all the inhabitants of the world pass before G-d like the animals of a corral, and G-d passes judgment over the entirety of Creation. In this way Rosh HaShanah is considered the Day of Judgment (Yom HaDin). However, Yom Kippur is also called the Day of Judgment. This begs the question: What is the... Read more »
Throughout the Jewish world, tens of thousands of children and young adults will soon be heading back to the classroom for another year of schooling. The excitement is palpable. For the past week or so (if not longer), children and parents have been busy purchasing and labeling school supplies, clothing, lunchboxes and other related items.... Read more »
COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. The transformation has been compared to throwbacks to the Great Depression and World War II. How do we view such cataclysmic events