Lessons on Current Events
Russia - Ukraine. Gog and Magog?
Are the winds of war blowing between Russia and Ukraine the beginning of the Gog and Magog war?
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu | Adar I 12 5782
Rotten on the Outside, Perfect on the Inside
How can the contradiction be explained, between what is seen on the outside and what we really are on the inside? How can there be such an acute contrast between our inner essence, so complete and perfect, and our external trappings which appear to be the exact opposite?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tevet 13 5782
Why Such an Emphasis on the Land of Israel?
Why did the religious-Zionist camp take upon itself the commandment of the Land of Israel as such a primary and important project, while ignoring all the other commandments?
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Cheshvan 16 5782
Diamonds Are Forever
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Av 21 5781
Choices
As often happens when I sit down to my computer to write this weekly opinion article, I am faced with several choices as to the subject that the article should be.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Av 19 5781
Richard Branson and The Ultimate Joy Ride
It's easy to think of life as a trip through a treasure-house of experiences. Climbing Everest. Flying around the world in eighty days, or to the edge of space. The truth is that all the pleasures, all the experiences of this world, are given to us for one reason only: that we might sense to the smallest degree, the taste of life itself. But what is life itself if not our experiences in it?
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Av 4 5781
On Becoming a Prophet
We certainly live in dangerous and uncertain times. There is no question that previous certainties in life and society, that we once took for granted and assumed would always be part of our daily existence, have now been called into great question and clouded with doubt.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Tammuz 27 5781
