February 21st, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
“Purim: Serious Fun” By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Yiddish, in many sectors of the Jewish community, is a dying language. This is a pity because of the many pearls of wisdom that are contained in Yiddish stories ... Read More →
February 14th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Every Jew needs at least two houses of worship. And he must enter both of them. One is his synagogue, and the other is his home. Jewish worship takes place in ... Read More →
February 7th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin “And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read it into the ears of the nation, and they said, ‘Everything that the Lord has spoken we shall do and we shall understand” ... Read More →
January 31st, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin Religious coercion has long threatened Israeli society, bringing to the surface all the tensions inherent in our unprecedented experiment of maintaining a state that is both “Jewish and democratic.” Is such an experiment ... Read More →
January 24th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin Why does the heart of the Haggadah almost completely omit mention of Moses, limiting him to one “cameo” appearance? Moreover, that brief reference, a verse from our portion, Beshalach, dealing with the Splitting ... Read More →
January 17th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin In a great tragedy of history, the success of far too many revolutions against tyranny have turned into disasters, with the revolutionaries acting as cruelly in power as the despots whom they overthrew. ... Read More →
January 10th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin “So the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and He commanded them to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh, King of Egypt, to let the children of Israel out of the ... Read More →
January 2nd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Can you sleep at night? There is so much trouble in the world. Violence, wars large and small, natural disasters, disease. We all personally know many who are suffering at this ... Read More →
December 21st, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin “I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them unto him together with the stick ... Read More →
December 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Wisdom is the rarest of all important human qualities. Observers of the contemporary state of affairs often remark that wisdom, which is especially necessary in this day and age, is now ... Read More →
By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin “Zion shall be redeemed because of Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Over the years, I have Read more →
By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin The interaction of Jew and Gentile Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb A central theme in this Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Conflict resolution is one of Read more →
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