The Signs of the New Year: 5784
Following our annual custom, let us look at some of the many gematriot—numerical allusions—to the value of the year we are now beginning, 5784 since...
Author : Gal Einai
Good Morning, World
On Rosh Hashanah we pray, hear the shofar, eat an apple with honey and bless each other with “a good and sweet year.” But what...
Preparing for Selichot with Rebbe Michel of Zlotshov
* based on a shiur given on Motza’ei Shabbat 26 Elul 5773 Notes taken during class, not reviewed nor edited by HaRav Ginsburgh 1....
Gematria Shorts for Nitzavim Vayelech
Parashot Nitzavim and Vayeilech are connected with Rosh Hashanah both because of the time of year they are read (this year, the week before Rosh...
The Ba’al Shem Tov: From One End of the World to the Other
In the book “Or Hameir” by Rabbi Ze’ev of Zhitomir, the disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, it is written that once, the disciples of...
Pirkei Avot 3:1 Where are you Going?
Akavya the son of Mahalalel would say: Reflect upon three things and you will not come to sin. Know where you came from, where you...
The Secret of Divorce Part 2
Click here for Part 1 of this article Divorce and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden This is the second part of a two-part...
The Secrets of Divorce
In honor of the yahrzeit of Rebbe Simchah Bunim of Peshischa Click here for Part 2 of this article On the yahrzeit of Rebbe Simcha...
Rabbi Simchah Bunim of Peshischa: Loving Lowliness
Rabbi Simchah Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (Przysucha) was a disciple of The Holy Yid, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowitz of Peshischa. Both were disciples of the...
Pirkei Avot 2:6: The End of Doubt
He [Hillel the Elder] also saw a skull floating upon the water. He said to it: “Because you drowned others, you were drowned; and those...
