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This Torah portion contains numerous warnings of the consequences for not living virtuously, not living a life of mitzvot. However, the parshah begins with 13 verses explaining and detailing the

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Rav Avraham Simcha Kaplan was the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Tzfas from the time of the founding of the State of Israel for nearly half a century. Before the war, while Rav Avraham Simcha was a student at the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus, he stayed with an older couple who had a single child. One […]

Reb Mendel Futerfas was a legendary mashpiah, known for his incredible self-sacrifice and resilience in the face of Soviet persecution. With incredible resolve and inner strength, Reb Mendel maintained his faith and sense of self throughout fourteen years of brutal incarceration and exile in Siberia. One of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s most loyal and dedicated soldiers, […]

We’ve all heard miracle stories of how tzaddikim could cure the deathly ill, but did they actually have medical prowess as well?

From the blog of Robert Lichtman at The Times of Israel

When Rabbi Noah Chertkoff gave a Rosh Hashanah sermon on climate change at Congregation Shalom two years ago, he felt, regretfully, that he could have given it years earlier. He even said so during the sermon. Year after year, it didn’t happen, because there always seemed to be a more pressing issue. “But it's that

Reb Yitzchak Meir Alter, the first Gerrer Rebbe, also known by the title of his writings, Chiddushei haRi’m, was a talmid of Reb Simcha Bunim of Peshischa and a brother-in-law of the Kotzker Rebbe. He took the Chasidic emphasis of avodah and turned it toward limud haTorah—coming close to Hashem through passionate study of Gemara […]

Spokesperson for minister of heritage cut on arm during altercation ahead of annual pilgrimage to shrine; police let off perpetrator with a warning to 'make sure things stay calm'

At renewed annual Lag B'Omer event, worshipers mourn the 45 attendees killed in deadly 2021 crush, while chafing at regulations meant to head off another disaster