Home, Man, and Woman

A relationship based upon affection alone, without serious dedication to family values, to continuity, lacks true stability. Such a bond will eventually collapse. But without personal attachment and affection the home and family could not be built.

"...But He Could Not Become Warm."

Haftara of Chayei Sara

We find that it was precisely the attempt to cause David to sin which had a part in causing him to become reawakened and rejuvenated; in David's choosing Shelomo to succeed him as king there is a dimension of rectification of his transgression.

"...but he could not become warm."

We find that it was precisely the attempt to cause David to sin which had a part in causing him to become reawakened and rejuvenated; in David's choosing Shelomo to succeed him as king there is a dimension of rectification of his transgression.

God's "Absence" from the Book of Ester

Achashverosh. Slightly less than two hundred times do we meet "the king" in the Book of Ester. A king of flesh and blood, one of "three who ruled with an iron hand" (Megillah 11:1) The King of the Universe, on the other hand, is not mentioned even once.

The Meaning of the Three Weeks

: In mourning over the Temple, we refuse to come to terms with the destruction. We begin with a life in which the Temple plays no role, and, in stages, return to the feeling of "one's dead lying before him."

Parshat Vayikra

Intro to Vayikra

Tu B'shvat-The Beginning of Renewal

The holiday of the trees in 15th of Shevat, according to the other new years.

Bible Interpretation Today

Our generation again faces many of the same questions that our distant ancestors faced. This is a very significant fact, and the meaning of many Torah passages are being revealed to ours, the generation of the "first flowering of redemption."