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Jul 3, 2018, 1:45 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! the Aurora Has Something to Say

It’s hard not to feel Nature singing God’s praises, whether in the vivid blue sky overhead this afternoon… or in the brilliant aurora, when the sun showers electromagnetic particles on Earth’s polar atmosphere to produce shimmering curtains of colored...

Jun 21, 2018, 3:26 PM

Book review – Hasidism: A New History

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game gets the best players in the game onto two teams every year. But what one see from this is that getting the best players together doesn’t always mean they are integrated team that...

Jun 7, 2018, 7:45 AM

Judaism no longer resembles a cold knish

Rabbi Elimelech Biderman and thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrating in Meron, Northern Israel, December 1, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Hasidut gets the credit for shifting many who were only going through the motions to keeping mitzvot with fervor

Nesanel Yoel Safran

Jun 6, 2018, 11:57 AM

Growing up I was never a big fan of Jewish food, to say the least. We ate strictly Red, White, and Blue: steak, chicken, hamburgers, and hotdogs. Sometimes Mom would stretch it with lasagna or ersatz-Chinese pepper steak if...

Nesanel Yoel Safran

Jun 5, 2018, 11:12 AM

Suspended Judgement

Kabbalat Shabbat in Safed… Kabbalat Shabbat is Safed. It’s where, in the times of the Arizal, the weekly Shabbat-arrival ceremony as we know it originated. So I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that it was Kabbalat Shabbat in Safed, during our recent...

May 31, 2018, 12:51 AM

In Defense of Tefillin

If by now you haven't seen the video circulating widely on social media of a woman, Pnina Peri, deriding a man who moments before had been approached by a Chabad emissary, Rabbi Meir Herzl, to don Tefillin, you either...

May 18, 2018, 10:43 AM

Following in the footsteps of the Soul Doctor — transcendental Torah experience — different Shavuot programs in Jerusalem

In Israel, there a lot of bus stops where people leave old books. This morning I picked up a book from 1967 of the Rabbinical Council of America. While glancing at one of the articles which are rabbis' sermons,...

May 15, 2018, 12:34 PM

Following in the footsteps of the Soul Doctor — Torah and the song of the Soul — Different Events in Jerusalem

This blog will highlight the growing influence of the use of music to connect people to their souls. We will showcase three events, This phenomenon was started and inspired by the Dancing Rabbi – Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. However, as we...

May 6, 2018, 1:38 PM

Judaism’s Recipe for Happiness

One of Judaism’s 613 commandments (mitzvot) is to be happy. But how does one obtain happiness? At Barnes & Noble, one can find 50 different books in which the title promotes that the book will help one have a happier...

May 4, 2018, 10:36 PM

Torah = search engine optimization

Is life just "happening" to you? Did you wake up this morning, turned your phone on and then just got overwhelmed by the sheer amount of emails and messages you need to deal with? Are you trying to figure out...

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