WATCH: Torah Experiments – Tea Time Kli Shlishi vs Cold
What is bitul Torah part 2 – Navi shiur Yehoshua Perek 1
WATCH: Where are my blessings
Where there’s a will there’s a way
Wills. It’s a touchy subject. Conjuring up thoughts of all types of sometimes unsavory topics. Mortality. Family feuds over inheritances. Financial repercussions. Worry about the future. And that’s just a sampling. Perhaps for that reason, many people push off the endeavor of writing a will until much later in life. We just don’t like thinking […]
Snake Above
A number of years ago on erev Shabbos of parshas ha’chodesh, I was doing some work in my yard together with my son when the latter suddenly exclaimed, “A snake!” Baruch Hashem, we experienced “he will smite you on the head” and not the other part of that pasuk[1]. But he didn’t go down easily. […]
Be Happy
Being around happy people can have a positive impact on your own sense of happiness, and being around sullen people can have a negative impact on your own sense of happiness. That is one of the “earth-shattering” results of the vaunted Boston University Framingham Heart Study. Begun in 1948, this study is seventy-five years old […]
Faux Pas
For a criminal in North Carolina, January 5th 2019, was a really bad day. A day that he made a terrible mistake. You see, this criminal had tried abducting a woman on the street, and, when she resisted and started running away, the would-be abductor inadvertently chased her right into a karate dojo. Which was […]
WATCH: Stories Shiur 28 – Bow Your Head & Sweat the Small Stuff
This is about the riveting story of the wicked King Achav coveting the vineyard of his neighbor, Navos HaYizre’eli, how the even more wicked Queen Izevel dealt with her husband’s depression, and how this all connects to the famous story about Rabi Akiva surviving a ship wreck. Listen and learn important lessons for life as […]
101 Engaging Questions
101 Engaging Torah Questions to spur dynamic Torah conversation in any setting Engaging Torah questions. That’s what we need, right? Have you ever wanted to strike up a Torah conversation but just found yourself stymied? Talmud Torah k’neged kulam. We all know that learning Torah is the fulcrum of Jewish life. It is that upon […]