Is Shabbos Too Strict?
The Special Beauty of Shabbos
Honor and Reverence - The Treatment of Parents and Shabbos
Gather Wood and Die - the woodgatherer who was put to death for violating Shabbos
Retaking the Gift of Shabbos
Rosh Chodesh
An Ode to the First Rosh Chodesh
Elul and Teshuva
New beginnings for a New Year
Repentance With Our Heart and Soul
The Month of ELUL
Uncovering the Heart for Repentance
A Pre Rosh Hashana Message of Inspiration
A Guest Presentation At a Nursing home
To Walk in His Ways
Perfecting Ourselves
Elul and Teshuva
New beginnings for a New Year
Repentance With Our Heart and Soul
The Month of ELUL
Uncovering the Heart for Repentance
A Pre Rosh Hashana Message of Inspiration
A Guest Presentation At a Nursing home
To Walk in His Ways
Perfecting Ourselves
Shabbos Shuva - the Many Ways of Returning
Rosh Hashana
There's No Crying in Rosh Hashana
Choices We Make
2 Kinds of Teshuvah
Abrupt, Tragic Realization brought on by the Shofar
Yom HaZikaron - What Is Being Remembered?
Do We Have Good Plans in Place for the Coming Year?
Accomplishing Goals Is All Based on My Effort - Lessons from Chana
For All My Life
When Bad Things Happen to Good People - an Approach to Understanding Suffering
Where God is Found
Secret Ingredient to Teshuvah and a Fulfilling Life
The Idealist and the Realist
(Tribute to #1 Partner in Creation)
Praying to God for Real (Being a Maamin/Believer) - Lessons from Chana (mother of Samuel), and Rachel Frankel (mother of murdered Naftali Frankel, HYD) A SERMON
Yom Kippur
A Haunting Kol Nidrei
A Yom Kippur Retrospective - Thoughts for Ne'ilah
Avinu Malkeinu - Our Father, Our King
Why We Read the Arayot on Yom Kippur
The Message of the Akedah of Yom Kippur and the New Year
Are Life and Death Hanging in the Balance?
A Big Fish Story
On the Death of the Sons of the High Priest
A YK letter - Am I my Worst Enemy, Sinning Against Myself?
Yizkor - Don't Cast Us Off in Old Age (Lessons for a New Year) - with a tribute to my grandfather A SERMON
Remarkable Jews, and When the Incredible Die
Rosh Hashana
There's No Crying in Rosh Hashana
Choices We Make
2 Kinds of Teshuvah
Abrupt, Tragic Realization brought on by the Shofar
Yom HaZikaron - What Is Being Remembered?
Do We Have Good Plans in Place for the Coming Year?
Accomplishing Goals Is All Based on My Effort - Lessons from Chana
For All My Life
When Bad Things Happen to Good People - an Approach to Understanding Suffering
Where God is Found
Secret Ingredient to Teshuvah and a Fulfilling Life
The Idealist and the Realist
(Tribute to #1 Partner in Creation)
Praying to God for Real (Being a Maamin/Believer) - Lessons from Chana (mother of Samuel), and Rachel Frankel (mother of murdered Naftali Frankel, HYD) A SERMON
Yom Kippur
A Haunting Kol Nidrei
A Yom Kippur Retrospective - Thoughts for Ne'ilah
Avinu Malkeinu - Our Father, Our King
Why We Read the Arayot on Yom Kippur
The Message of the Akedah of Yom Kippur and the New Year
Are Life and Death Hanging in the Balance?
A Big Fish Story
On the Death of the Sons of the High Priest
A YK letter - Am I my Worst Enemy, Sinning Against Myself?
Yizkor - Don't Cast Us Off in Old Age (Lessons for a New Year) - with a tribute to my grandfather A SERMON
Remarkable Jews, and When the Incredible Die
Yom Kippur Moments = Rolling the Tape
Sukkos
Sukkot or no Sukkot - a question as to how the holiday is portrayed in the Torah
Only Joy
Decorating the Sukkah (נוי סוכה )
Unified By the Sukkah
God's Four Species
Sukkos
Sukkot or no Sukkot - a question as to how the holiday is portrayed in the Torah
Only Joy
Decorating the Sukkah (נוי סוכה )
Unified By the Sukkah
God's Four Species
Putting Meaning Into the 4 Minim Wavings
Tips For Hoshana Traffic
Smell the Esrog, Discovering that People are Complex
Finding Meaning in Waving the 4 Minim
Tips For Hoshana Traffic
Smell the Esrog, Discovering that People are Complex
Finding Meaning in Waving the 4 Minim
Holiday Joy
Sukkos: The Jewish Thanksgiving
Simchas Torah
Celebrating the Greatest Gift of All
Chanukah
Seeking Out A Fellow Jew in this Holiday Season
A Unique Thought on Why Chanukah is an 8-Day Holiday
Jewish Soul Survival - an important Chanukah reminder
Eight Days of Re-Dedication to God
Filling the Emptiness with Inspiration
Eight Days and Bringing Light
Tu B'Shvat
Tu BShvat - Inspiration from Tu B'Av
Trees Keep Us Rooted in Tradition
Adar and Purim
Observing Moshe's yarzeit in a Leap Year - 7 Adar...
O So Embarrassing - Why Haman Needed to Kill ALL the Jews
Sukkos: The Jewish Thanksgiving
Simchas Torah
Celebrating the Greatest Gift of All
Chanukah
Seeking Out A Fellow Jew in this Holiday Season
A Unique Thought on Why Chanukah is an 8-Day Holiday
Jewish Soul Survival - an important Chanukah reminder
Eight Days of Re-Dedication to God
Filling the Emptiness with Inspiration
Eight Days and Bringing Light
Tu B'Shvat
Tu BShvat - Inspiration from Tu B'Av
Trees Keep Us Rooted in Tradition
Adar and Purim
Observing Moshe's yarzeit in a Leap Year - 7 Adar...
O So Embarrassing - Why Haman Needed to Kill ALL the Jews
Different Stages of the Establishment of Purim Celebrations
A Pre-Purim Reminder about Drinking
Men, Women, and the Megillah - insights on relationships from the Purim Story
Libsumei B'Puria - A new look at the strange "obligation" to drink alcohol on Purim *CHIDDUSH*
Doing Purim Right - Avoiding the ways we do Purim O so WRONG
A Pre-Purim Reminder about Drinking
Men, Women, and the Megillah - insights on relationships from the Purim Story
Libsumei B'Puria - A new look at the strange "obligation" to drink alcohol on Purim *CHIDDUSH*
Doing Purim Right - Avoiding the ways we do Purim O so WRONG
Shekalim - The Liturgy of This Shabbos
Parshat Zachor - זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק - Remember that Amalek MADE YOU Unite
Parshat Zachor - זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק - Remember that Amalek MADE YOU Unite
Why Should We Remember Amalek
Zachor - Amalek is the Ultimate Distraction
Zachor - Best Advice (to Overcome Amalek)
Parah - A "Chok" With a Reason
Parah - A Prayer Lesson from the ParahParah - Weeding Out Distractions to Just Serve God
HaChodesh - A Time for Renewal in Life
Pesach and Chag HaMatzot
Bedikat Chametz - Do I Have to or Not?
Inviting the Uninvited - why every Jew should have a chance to be at a Seder
HaChodesh - A Time for Renewal in Life
Pesach and Chag HaMatzot
Bedikat Chametz - Do I Have to or Not?
Inviting the Uninvited - why every Jew should have a chance to be at a Seder
Why the Seder Must Be Engaging
How to Tell the Story Well Into the Night
Chametz - Bread of Freedom
Dayenu - Enough to Give Thanks
The Two Hallels of Pesach
Appreciating the Broken Matzah - insight into appreciating people who don't look as they once did
On the Death of the Sons of the High Priest
Playing Roles on Pesach - the lively and creative seder
Going Up in Holiness
How to Tell the Story Well Into the Night
Chametz - Bread of Freedom
Dayenu - Enough to Give Thanks
The Two Hallels of Pesach
Appreciating the Broken Matzah - insight into appreciating people who don't look as they once did
On the Death of the Sons of the High Priest
Playing Roles on Pesach - the lively and creative seder
Going Up in Holiness
Preparing for Kabbalat HaTorah
The date of the holiday
Why Stay Up? Or Not
7 Weeks Which Are Temimot
Being a Shomer Torah Means Being a Pleasant Person
The date of the holiday
Why Stay Up? Or Not
7 Weeks Which Are Temimot
Being a Shomer Torah Means Being a Pleasant Person
Holiday Joy
Tisha B'Av and Nine Days
Nine Days - Music and Celebrations
Nine Days - Laundry
Nine Days - Eating, especially in the week in which Tisha B'Av Falls, and Erev Tisha B'Av (except when 9 Av is Sunday)
Nine Days - Summary of Tisha B'Av's rules
Real Reason to Mourn
Merits of Performance - The reminder that Tisha B'Av observance is a microcosm of the future of Judaism.
O, Man. Where Art Thou? - The word Eichah and its reminder for man to stay in the zone
The Vision of Chazon (Haftorah pre Tisha B'Av)
Tisha B'Av and Nine Days
Nine Days - Music and Celebrations
Nine Days - Laundry
Nine Days - Eating, especially in the week in which Tisha B'Av Falls, and Erev Tisha B'Av (except when 9 Av is Sunday)
Nine Days - Summary of Tisha B'Av's rules
Real Reason to Mourn
Merits of Performance - The reminder that Tisha B'Av observance is a microcosm of the future of Judaism.
O, Man. Where Art Thou? - The word Eichah and its reminder for man to stay in the zone
The Vision of Chazon (Haftorah pre Tisha B'Av)
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