Bring the Light
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Our world, once again, is in a precarious situation. Actually, it has been this way since Covid spread throughout the world, felling many of our most cherished people. Many...
View ArticleDouble Joy
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Think about it. If this year wasn’t a leap year, we would be celebrating Purim this week. Instead, Purim is a month away. But even though we have to wait a month to celebrate...
View ArticleMy Father’s Tefillin
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In Parshas Ki Sisa, we learn one of the most tragic occurrences in our history, from which we suffer until today: the sin of the Eigel. Every time we learn the parsha, we...
View ArticleTobin: Harris and Gantz Are Playing Politics With Israel’s Future
By Jonathan S. Tobin For five months, the Biden administration has been talking out of both sides of its mouth about the war between Israel and Hamas. It supported Israel’s efforts but also sought to...
View ArticleThe Secret of Happiness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This Shabbos, we announce the arrival of the second month of Adar, granting us another opportunity to take advantage of the obligation to increase our joy as Adar arrives....
View ArticleOpen the Door
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In this week’s parsha of Pekudei, the posuk states, “All the work necessary for the Mishkon was completed, as the Jewish people did everything Hashem commanded through Moshe....
View ArticleIt’s All Good
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Many nations have risen up to battle us, subjugate us, and torment us, yet Amaleik is singled out for eternal derision. Many of those who fought us succeeded in their...
View ArticleThe Day of Liberation
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz If you would want to describe the Yom Tov we celebrated this week in one word, what would it be? I would say liberation. Purim is the day of liberation, because that is what...
View ArticleLiving With Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In this week’s parsha, we learn about one of the great days in the history of Klal Yisroel. They were finally redeemed, for as the Ramban explains, the redemption from...
View ArticleTobin: Outrage Over Aid-Worker Deaths Is About Saving Hamas, Not Civilians
By Jonathan S. Tobin The growing chorus of voices on the political left that have been loudly demanding that Israel’s war on Hamas be stopped have been waiting for this. After months of seeking to...
View ArticleIt’s All From Above
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Here, we finally are in the month of Nissan. Pesach, the Yom Tov when we celebrate our freedom, is upon us. The weather has warmed, the days have lengthened, and we are only...
View ArticleCelebration of Freedom
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The Seder is the highlight of the Yom Tov of Pesach, and regardless of what is going on outside, Jewish families everywhere sit around a table and celebrate our freedom from...
View ArticleTatty, When Will You Come Home?
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber Four years ago, in March 2020 when Covid-19 was all around, I asked the boys in my class to share Divrei Torah with their grandparents, many of whom would be lonely that year...
View ArticleStaying Holy
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We recently celebrated Pesach, which is referred to as Zeman Cheiruseinu, the days upon which we commemorate our freedom. We were exalted and relaxed as we sat at the Seder...
View ArticleFacing the Test
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Parshas Behar opens with the mitzvah of Shmittah. The discussion of the topic begins by stating that Hashem told these halachos to Moshe Rabbeinu on Har Sinai. Rashi...
View ArticleWhat We Can Do
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In the days of old, when the Jewish people were blessed with leaders who were able to discern and portray the Hand of Hashem in all that transpired, people weren’t as...
View ArticleThat’s What We’re Here For
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Back at the beginning of the world, when creation was still unsullied by man and his struggles, nothing was guaranteed. The Gemara in Shabbos (88a) quotes Reish Lakish, who...
View ArticleReflections on a Unique School Year
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber The end of a school year is always a time for introspection for teachers, parents and students. They look back at their ups and downs through the school year and try to plan...
View ArticleAn Eternal People
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz I had the zechus of spending over a week in Eretz Yisroel. The past two weeks were said to be the hottest since Israel began recording weather temperatures. Since we stayed...
View ArticleEXPOSÉ: Why Sefaria and Koren Are Now Treif
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer I write the following without any agenda other than to share information that has already been made public voluntarily by the parties under discussion. It pains me to write...
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