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For Him Pirkei Avos ends with a powerful and critical message. Building off Sefer Yeshaya, the Mishnah writes, “Everything that Hashem created in His world, He created only for His honor.” Though we may not be able to fully understand Hashem’s intentions, [1] we know that, at least on some level, all of creation exists […]

We’re so used to Yerushalayim in ruins, we don’t realize there’s anything better

No other holiday season in the Jewish calendar is as prayer-intensive as Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, each with a unique prayer and liturgy imbued with the motifs of repentance and new beginnings. …

We yearn for insightful guidance on matters of body and soul, but our intentions aren’t self-serving

By Sivan Rahav-Meir Translated by Yehoshua Siskin The picture you see here was taken this week in the Woodmere neighborhood of Long Island, New York, where Yael Hazan graduated from a very large public high school. After enduring many anti-Israel and anti-Jewish taunts and barbs during her years at the school, she decided that when […]

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of livelihood

Repairing a relationship is grueling — but there's magic in forgiveness

From the blog of Reuven Chaim Klein at The Times of Israel

 More than four decades after his passing, talmidim, assistants, and the American hosts of “everyone’s rosh yeshivah” share their personal memories of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky     It was a frigid morning in late January of 1978. A throng of men stood together in the arrivals hall at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, eyes trained on the door. Suddenly, the doors swung open and a tall, dignified rabbi appeared. Instantly, the waiting crowd locked arms, began a celebratory tune, and began t...