Charity and Wine in Adar
Kabbalah provides us with two options for the permutation of God’s essential Name Havayah that illuminates the month of Adar. One points us in the...
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Partzuf: The Seven Liquids
The first of the Ten Plagues is blood. The water in the Nile and around it was transformed into blood. Of all the plagues this...
Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner: Not a Miracle
Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica, known eponymously by the title of his book "Mei HaShiloach", was born in 5560 (1800) to his father Rabbi...
Liberation of the “I” on the Seder Night
Despite all the time and effort we spend preparing delicacies for the Seder table, the Seder’s main focus is the matzah and the wine. These...
Noach: Wine and Its Discontents
Noach was God’s messenger to perpetuate humanity so that it would survive the flood. After the flood, however, Noach fell into sin. He planted a...
Q&A: Drinking on Purim?
Q: Why drink wine and even get drunk on Purim? A: Perhaps the most famous statement about the positive effects of wine is to be...
