As a young reader, I lacked the maturity to appreciate the joys of rereading a book. With the siren song of untouched pages whispering in my ear, I had no temptation to return to a story that held no ...

We know that every word of the Torah contains infinite wisdom. One could dedicate many lifetimes to even just one word of the Torah. While this is true of every word, probably the Torah’s most studied ...

The Talmud tells us that Avram was an akar (akar = the masculine form of the Hebrew word for “barren,” unable to have children naturally).[1] Spiritually, too, children were not to be a part of ...

“When G-d created heaven and earth.” These are the first words of this week’s parsha, the week of Simchas Toyreh. One of the most common questions I receive as a student studying to become a rabbi is: ...

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