7 Lessons
There Are No Limits
When Roger Bannister ran the first mile in less than four minutes, he broke a lot more than a record.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Iyar 23 5782
G-d's Waiting Room
With its abundance of retirement homes for the elderly, Miami Beach is often called, with macabre humor, “God’s waiting room”. Retirement isn’t as notorious as heart disease or cancer but it’s still a major killer.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Iyar 3 5782
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
Tragedy in Miami
When tragedy strikes, each one of us must make an accounting.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Tammuz 20 5781
Who Really Should Have Won The Israeli Elections
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Tammuz 5 5781
Is Circumcision Mutilation
Prince Charles and before him the sons of George V - Edward VIII (later the duke of Windsor), George VI, Henry, duke of Gloucester; George, duke of Kent; and Prince John, were all circumcised. In fact, circumcision was widely performed on British middle - and upper-class male infants from the 1890s through the 1940s. Things have changed a bit since then: In 2010, activists against infant circumcision began an initiative to ban all non-medically necessary circumcisions of minors calling it mutilation. Why do Jews circumcize their sons?
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Sivan 20 5781
