We assume Har Sinai is somewhere deep in Sinai, but Ari and Ari pursue a lead in the Saudi Desert
True giving isn’t about the way we project ourselves, it’s about meeting the needs of the person we’re giving to
We kids were in a bubble of oblivion, sure that our grandparents existed solely to smother us with endless love, fun, and nosh
There really is no safe place
“Fools all of you. You arrest me, when I am just a messenger from a foreign land. I was duped into this. It was all a plan for my downfall. Me, the printer of Salonika"
It may have been your eyelid, your thumb, your jaw, or your calf that suddenly started twitching and you were like — huh?
Can you afford to send your daughter to seminary — and can she afford not to go?
The human soul requires regular contact with the Creator, just as human lungs require air
“If he gets through today okay, he could be home in a day or two”
Rabbi Shimon Yosef Meller rescues a rare photo of the Brisker Rav from a forgotten archive
I don’t mind that Shani and I will end up in different seminaries. That’ll stop all the comparison