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Taking challah is practical, material — and a spiritual tether

The Three Weeks is a time to strive to bring back the focus, the love, the desire for connection with Hashem

Bittul zeman, wasting time, killing time, is, in essence, a rejection of G-d’s greatest gift to us: time

Don't let your after blessings be an afterthought

As we stood at Har Sinai, we saw the thunder, heard the lightning. The lightning fades, but the sudden burst of clarity takes you forward. Six women share a moment that illuminated their path Girls in the seventh grade are usually busy with hairstyles and shoes and homework. In whispered conversations with classmates they might ponder the shidduch date they aren’t supposed to know their brother is on, and whether or not their teacher is expecting. I, on the other hand, was a tomboy busy with ...

The two miracles of Chanukah were Hashem’s response to the Greek denial of a realm above nature     Chanukah falls at the darkest time of the year, the time when the nights are longest. And the twelve months since last Chanukah have certainly been dark ones for most of us. Yet just as the darkness of night better offsets the Chanukah lights and increases their glow, so too if we genuinely appreciated the meaning of those lights, they would have the power to dissipate much darkness in our li...