Shavuos is the most humble of Yomim Tovim. Nowhere does it state specifically that the Torah was given on this day. Har Sinai is...

The Gift Of A Name Mottel Greenfeld and Chaim Engel were the fortunate survivors of the concentration camps; their parents, siblings, and entire extended families...

The tragic loss of ten high school students – nine females and one male – last week in a flash flood in Israel’s South...

As we enter the second segment of the Omer, the period after Lag Ba’omer, some of the various minhagim allow us to breathe a...

The morning after the Pesach Seder, a Yid approached Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein very much moved by something that had happened at his Seder. “I...

In many ways, the Seder is the high point of the year. For those who know, each one of us is like the kohein...

Man has long been obsessed with the elusive dimension known as Time. The distinguished British man of letters, J.B. Priestley, wrote a volume titled...

Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l passed away on Taanis Esther, 5746. That Purim, the bochurim in Yeshivas Telshe still reveled in the Purim atmosphere, not...

Mesiras Nefesh For Learning Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach grew up in a time of great poverty in Yerushalayim. As a child and bochur, his family...

The New York Times Magazine has a weekly feature called “How to…” It usually offers advice on how to perform some seemingly simple but...

A little over two years ago, I undertook a project that felt rather daunting. A wonderful family asked me to write the story of...

In light of the sudden petirah of Rav Shmuel Auerbach zt”l, I thought it would be appropriate to listen to some of his own...

For several reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about the relationship between a rov and his kehillah. First of all, last week my shul kindly...

Dearest Kinderlach, As Yom Kippur approaches and we make a cheshbon hanefesh of the past year, in addition to recognizing where we went wrong, we...

My sukkaleh! I cannot wait To sit inside its shelter To shield me from this crazy world That reeks of helter skelter Outside the world has just gone...

Not With A Sour Face It was chol hamoed Sukkos, when writing is prohibited except under pressing circumstances. Despite his busy schedule, the Chofetz Chaim...

There are many similarities between Pesach and Sukkos. Both begin with a seudah – a festive meal – which families and often friends eat...

Of course, the primary emotion of Rosh Hashanah is fear. The novi (Amos 3:8) asks, “Aryeh (a lion) has roared; who will not fear?”...

I once had a rebbi who would say that everybody wants to be a gadol. The problem is that not everyone wants to become...

The Gemara in Maseches Rosh Hashanah (10b) teaches us that it was on the day of Rosh Hashanah that Yosef was freed from prison...