April 18th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Pinkus was a Holocaust survivor with no family, who eked out a livelihood by peddling his wares from door to door in Jewish neighborhoods, as was commonplace several generations ago. I ... Read More →
April 11th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin ‘And when Moses heard [Aaron’s argument] it found favor in his eyes’ (Leviticus 10:19) Our biblical portion opens with the exalting and exultant ceremonies of the consecration of the desert sanctuary, closely followed ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin “…God made the people take a roundabout path, by way of the desert…” [Ex. 13:18]. Having observed the Passover seder just one week ago, we would do well to reflect back on that ... Read More →
March 28th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin The Passover Seder we will be soon be celebrating is an evening dedicated first and foremost to the relationship between the generations, to parents communicating to their children the agony and the ecstasy ... Read More →
March 21st, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb As we get older, our perspective changes with regard to the age-old question of who is a child and who is an adult. At what age does one pass from the ... Read More →
March 14th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin The opening words of this third book of the Bible, the book of Vayikra, tells us that God first called to Moses and then communicated to him a specific message concerning the sacrificial ... Read More →
March 7th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
My wife and I were walking down the long airport corridor on the way to the boarding gate. There was a couple coming toward us and, as they came closer, there was something vaguely familiar about ... Read More →
February 28th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin Why does the name of God not appear throughout the Scroll of Esther – unlike all of the other 24 books of the Bible, which feature His name in almost every verse? Ki ... Read More →
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 →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The recent commemoration of the Read more →
By Shlomo Riskin “And I will surely hide My face Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Whenever I prepare a speech Read more →
By Shlomo Riskin “When you come to the land which Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb One Friday morning many years Read more →
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