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What is the big simchah on purim? Is it just about the great miracle that happened in the time of…

Everyone knows that one of the many areas in which the great Tzadik, the Chofetz Chaim, stood out, was his…

Gam Jew L’Tovah Haman is toast. Achashveirosh has just walked in and found him on the Queen’s bed. At that…

Avriny is so excited! After all he learned about Reb Shayele, he’s finally traveling to Kerestir! He packs his tefilin…

YOSSI: What does Rabbi Shimon have to do with Meron? YOELI: My rebbe told me that Meron is the same…

…Celebrate on a Tzadik’s yartzheit? It would seem like we should really do the opposite, no? On the day a…

Why does it seem like Reb Shayele focused more on chessed than on Torah and Avodah, and why did he…

Inspired by Mendy Worch’s song “Gimmel Iyur in Kerister”   So many years have passed Years of tzaros, years of…

Thursday, May 1st, the third of Iyar, marked the 100th yahrtzeit of the Tzadik Reb Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir zt”l,…

…Get happy when Adar comes? Great question! Because on a simple level, it’s easy to understand. Purim is such a…

YOELI: Hey Yos, still eating fruit huh?  YOSSI: You bet Yoeli. I heard something unbelievable. There is a zecher to…

Baruch held his breath. There was someone else in the basement! His mind was racing, he had followed the signs.…

I’ll tell you a maaseh. One of the great Chassidim of the Yid Hakadosh of Peshischa was the Rebbe Reb…

Ma’avar Yavak When one sings praises to Hashem with tunes and melodies, when that song ascents to the Heavens, all…

Shacharis > Pesukei D’zimra > Y’hi Chavod One thing that jumps out at you when saying ‘Y’hi Chavod,’ is how…

Dovid Hamelech famously says in Tehillim (23),” ה׳ רֹעִי לֹא אֶחְסָר… גַּם כִּי אֵלֵךְ בְּגֵיא צַלְמָוֶת לֹא אִירָא רָע כִּי…

When Hashem instructed Moshe Rabbeinu to make the menorah, Moshe seemed to have a hard time figuring out how to…

Ah gutten chodesh! As the light of Purim begins to radiate, let’s think about what we can do to set…

We elevate sparks by sanctifying the mundane and revealing G-dliness in places that seem devoid of holiness. We can identify,…

…Say Hashem is “ONE”? Every Yid knows that Hashem is one. But what does that mean? The meforshim explain that…

YOSSI: Yoeli! Teveria is not in the center of Eretz Yisrael! It’s kind of at the top… nowhere near Yerushalayim…

In honor of the 166th yaartzeit of the Kotzker Rebbe, Rav Menachem Mendel Morgenstern ZY”A, 22 Shvat The Sfas Emes…

If Mr. Shpeiter was going on a trip, why couldn’t he have called, or even told Baruch about it in…

Reb Yisroel Salantar Before I started to learn mussar, I thought the whole world was deficient except for me. After…