Know Yourself. Know Your Mission. (80 secs) #Parsha Vayichi
January 11, 2017 at 03:33PM Watch video on YouTube: Know Yourself. Know Your Mission. (80 secs) #Parsha Vayichi
January 11, 2017 at 03:33PM Watch video on YouTube: Know Yourself. Know Your Mission. (80 secs) #Parsha Vayichi
How to deal with disturbing images of God in the Torah.
“For I made myself responsible for the naar youth — to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever… For how shall I go up to my father, if the youth be not with me?” — Genesis 44:32-34 …
Unfortunately, many people think “serving God” is submitting to a Slave Driver who dwells in heaven and demands, “You must serve me! Obey my commandments and do them with a smile! Or else I will punish you.” In other words, they fear that a life of mitzvot is about complete …
January 5, 2017 at 09:20AM Watch video on YouTube: The world looks they way we look at the world (90 secs) # parsha
….the despotic kingdom of Greece rose up against Your people Israel to make them forget Your law and to lead them away from the statutes of Your will. (from the daily Chanukah prayer addition) In 2nd century B.C.E, the Greek Seleucid Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes began a systematic campaign against Judaism, …
The word Chanukah is associated with the Hebrew word chen, which means “grace”. When you meet people with chen, you realize there is something very attractive about them. But chen is not the same as “pretty,” which is yofi in Hebrew. We have all had the experience of meeting someone …
Happy Chanukah! Here’s what Mark Twain wrote in his famous essay “Concerning the Jews” published in Harper’s magazine in 1897: If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the …
Rabbi Aaron gave this class as a live internet video class, and opens with the question: How does one achieve real simcha during Chanukah? He also looks at the two miracles of the festival and the essential difference between the Greek and Jewish worldviews.