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The passuk says “Vayar ha’am vayanu’u — and the nation saw and shook.” The Baal HaTurim says that this is…

There was once a pious Yid who lived in Tazfas who would every night, with great sincerity, say Tikkun Chatzos…

Shavuos is a time when we celebrate not just the anniversary of Matan Torah, but the ongoing story of a…

Leah Katz may only be in 12th Grade, but her impact far outsizes her years! Leah started an innovative learning…

About 15 years ago, I heard a story about Rabbi Mendel of Horodok. Someone had stood on Har Hazeisim and…

It’s been a minute. Let’s journal. Sivan, and my mind runs straight to Har Sinai.
I can almost hear the song…

But why did they have to die? That question about Rabbi Akiva’s students has bothered me since childhood.  “Because they…

One of the most interesting Jewish customs is the minhag to stay up all night on Shavous. The origin of…

“If only Hashem had given me the brains of Albert Einstein, then gevald — I would’ve been so excited to…

There is a longing at the center of every human life. We feel it most acutely in the quiet moments:…

About a thousand years ago, Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Paquda sat down to write a book. He had noticed something that…

Some mitzvos are time-based; we eat matzah on Pesach, and sit in the sukkah on Sukkos. Other mitzvos are specific…

DEAR FRIENDS, The hardest part of putting our Yom Tov magazines together may very well be trying to introduce it…

The passuk says‭ ‬כַּאֲשֶׁר‭ ‬צִוָּה‭ ‬ד’‭ ‬אֶת‭ ‬משֶׁה‭ ‬וַיִּפְקְדֵם‭ ‬בְּמִדְבַּר‭ ‬סִינָי‭  ‬As Hashem had commanded Moshe, so he counted them…

The Baal Shem Tov famously wrote about a vision he had where he had an interaction with the neshama of…

Rabbi Yisroel Salanter once delivered a shiur on the subject of bitachon in which he took the position that 
if…

In Chazal we find three more names for Chumash Bamidbar: 1) Chumash Vayedaber, because that is the first word 2)…

Lunchtime Lessons Esty’s Story  as told to Sara Klarberg “I was born ready,” I told my mother when she asked…

176th yahrtzeit: 29 IYAR  BURIED: Premishlan, Ukraine Reb Meir’l, as he was called, was one of the most hidden and…

Malchus is the final middah, and its goal is to help us take all the earlier middos and bring them…

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky once visited a school and noticed that the mezuzah on the doorpost was unusually low. Halacha mandates…

A young man who was learning Torah was told by a doctor that he had a very rare sickness. The…

In the toichacha, it says “v’tam lorik kochachem.” Chazal teach that this hints to a case where a father marries…

Power of a Mitzvah Leah’s Story as told to Sara Klarberg Our Brachos Campaign had been going strong for months…