Looking Forward to Shabbos

This Shabbos, thousands of Jews across the world are coming together to celebrate a special Shabbos known as the Shabbos (or Shabbat) Project. While every Shabbos is special, this weekend has been promoted and hyped in cities across the world to encourage those...

The Darkness of the Raven

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting— “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!...

A Work in Progress

We have all heard the expression “he/she is a work in progress”. Usually it is referring to someone who is somewhat rambunctious or not meeting your expectations. But the truth of the matter is that we are all a work in progress. This week we begin a new cycle of the...

Above and Beyond

You would think that if everyone followed the laws of the Torah, Hashem would be pleased and all would be good. Yet, the Talmud in Bava Metzia 30b teaches that Rabbi Yochanan said “Jerusalem was destroyed because people judged based on Torah Law”. The Gemara...