The Tzedakah (Charity) Box: Pushkah Power – Post 2
- Freeman, Tzvi
- "Charity...means being a nice guy and giving your money to someone with less. That's why, in Jewish tradition, we never give charity......
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The Tzedakah (Charity) Box: Pushkah Power – Post 1
- Freeman, Tzvi
- "‘A charity box in a home or office,’ the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught, ‘redefines the entire space. It is no longer just a home, just an office. It is a center of kindness and caring’...
When the Cracks Appear, Let the Light Enter – Part 2
- Jacobson, Rabbi YY
- "To make room for a Divine structure, the human structure had to be demolished...
When the Cracks Appear, Let the Light Enter – Part 1
- Jacobson, Rabbi YY
- "The demolition itself was the beginning of a renovation of the Third Temple to be built in its very space...
The People of the Moon
- Sinclair, Rabbi Yaakov Asher
- "The Jewish people are the people of the moon. So many times in our history we seem to be on the point of vanishing completely...and we rise time and time again, like the moon....
The Nine Days of Mourning – Post 2
- Green, Rabbi Dovid
- "Whatever we must live through is purposeful, and for our ultimate good....
The Nine Days of Mourning – Post 1
- Green, Rabbi Dovid
- "These days are the prelude to the destruction of the Holy Temple...
The Power of Torah Learning – Post 2
- Friedman, Rabbi Manis
- "G-d doesn’t want to be your belief, he wants to be your reality, and that can only happen...by studying Torah....
The Roots of Trauma
- Jacobson, Rabbi Simon
- "The Temple wasn’t a mere structure of bricks and mortar. It was a window – a literal gate – between heaven and earth....
17th of Tammuz
- Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
- "The purpose of a fast day is to awaken our sense of loss over the destroyed Temple – and the subsequent Jewish journey into exile...
The Power of Torah Learning – Post 1
- Friedman, Rabbi Manis
- "The objective is to bring G-d from Heaven down to earth....
Oral Torah vs. Written Torah
- Torah.org
- "...there are two 'Torahs' - the Written and the Oral.... both were given to Moses at Mt. Sinai...