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Say the words “bar mitzvah” and you immediately think happy thoughts. It is quite a momentous occasion for the bar mitzvah bochur, as now...

Two years. That’s how long the Mueller investigation lasted. Two years of wasted time, many millions of taxpayers’ dollars squandered. The hopes of perhaps...

Last year, at this time, we discussed the meaning of Shabbos Hagadol in the writings of the Gerrer rebbes. This year, we will explore...

The Sefas Emes (Parshas Hachodesh 5645) calls Parshas Hachodesh “the key to geulah.” He explains somewhat enigmatically that “this was the first commandment...

Several years ago, I had the zechus to stand at the very spot – the notorious seventh fort – where Rav Elchonon Wasserman was...

Rav Dov Berish Weidenfeld, the Tchebiner Rov, was old and frail. He no longer felt capable of seeing visitors as often as he used...

Purim is a time of renewed discovery of how much Hashem loves us, His great nissim – both revealed and hidden – that He...

This is the season. From the appeals of Parshas Shekolim through matanos la’evyonim and maos chitim, the hungry, needy and indigent line up at...

Imagine life for one long day with no night for sleep and no sunrise to awaken to. What would it be like if one...

We are a family of kohanim. Chazal tell us that kohanim zerizim heim (Shabbos 20a, 114b), which means, among other things, that they act...

Two Adars allow us to explore how to be happy more often than usual (see Kedushas Levi, Parshas Ki Sisa; Rav Tzadok Hakohein, Likkutei...

“Praiseworthy is a person who has found wisdom, a person who can derive understanding from it. For its commerce is better than the commerce...

Little Zanvil comes home from cheder one day, his face streaked with dried tears. Concerned, his mother immediately hugs him tightly and asks if...

Just two words. If we only remembered them, our lives would be so different. Kavod Shomayim. The Klausenberger Rebbe (Shefa Chaim, Nisuin, No. 28, page...

I am beginning to believe that every once in a while, Hashem gives mankind another chance. Although He remains basically hidden in the world,...

Something incredible happened in Yerushalayim in the year 1953, something that could bring great chizuk in emunah. A child was born to a young...

Question Why is it that when you say Shema without wearing tefillin, it is as if you are giving eidus sheker, false testimony? Even...

It must’ve looked hilariously funny. Had I seen him, perhaps I would have burst out in boisterous laughter. Then again, I probably would have...

"Golus, golus, how long are you." These words are from a dveikusdike niggun composed by the Kaliver Rebbe that has been sung for generations....

Last week in these pages, I shared a letter that I sent to a lost innocent soul who thinks he is a Reconstructionist Jew. This...