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Listening for a Divine Echo When will God speak to us? First, we might want to consider how carefully we are listening, because a bit of wonder changes what one can hear. holydude/Getty Images When will God speak to me? As a Yeshiva student in my early twenties, I was on a serious spiritual quest. I would pray intensely and yearned to receive a response from God. I was looking for direction in making some difficult decisions and wanted God to guide me; I was also struggling with questions about faith, and I hoped that a divine revelation would banish my doubts.

The Reason for the Tragedy in Meron not be about why the terrible, unspeakable tragedy occurred in Meron last week. Indeed, after every tragic occurrence, the floodgates seem to open and every other guy seems to have a direct line to Heaven through which he was informed as to the reason for the occurrence. This one insists it was because of sheitels, that one is adamant that it’s internet usage, to another guy it’s clearly due to rampant sinas chinom, yet another fellow blames mothers of boys in shidduchim, still others place fault with the shadchonim, others say it’s the

Two childless brothers share their story of pain, hope and salvation   When Reb Yitzchak (Itzik) Churi heard the first cry of the newborn as his wife Efrat gave birth in the delivery suite of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital last month, it was, he says, “a ‘boom’ I can’t describe. When they handed my wife the tiny, living, breathing baby girl, she held her close and in a tear-choked voice whispered, ‘I’ve been waiting for you for 21 years.’ The staff was all crying along with us. We saw the miracle unfold before our eyes.” For more than two decades, the Churis embarked on the bump...

Elder mekubal Rabi Shalom Shmueli shrouds his greatness in a shoemaker’s guise   Photos: Elchanan Kotler The bustle of the Machaneh Yehudah market is clearly audible even though it’s only the beginning of the week. It resounds through the stone alleyways around Agrippas Street, echoing through the windows and doors of the century-old homes, until it reaches one narrow street that’s barely wide enough for a car and pedestrian to pass at once. This is the seam line between the quaint Nachlaot neighborhood and pathways that feed into the market. But even during the busiest shopping hours,...

We do know is that this story is a Coca-Cola classic. And it’s kosher for Pesach, too! A leading rabbinic figure in early 20th century America was Rabbi Tuvia (Tobias) Geffen of Atlanta, Georgia. The sandek at his bris in 1870 was Rav Yitzchok Elchanan Spektor. A musmach of the Slabodka yeshivah and the Kovno kollel, young Tuvia possessed a legendary hasmadah. Family lore has it that when Tsar Nicholas II visited Kovno and the entire city gathered on the streets to view the spectacle, Tuvia sat alone in the beis medrash, completely engrossed in his learning. As violent anti-Semitism reared ...