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By Or N. Rose (Courtesy: Spectrum) Rabbi Or N. Rose, is associate dean at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Boston, a frequent contributor […]

By Rabbi Chaim Dovid Green This weeks parsha tells us about the three major festivals. They are Pesach, Shavuos and Sukkos. They are milestones of […]

(Cooper, David A., God is a Verb. New York, New York: Riverhead Brooks, 1997, p. 224.) ” Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev said, at every […]

Courtesy: Anthony Kerstein During World War II, between 1939-45, all the European Chasidic communities were virtually wiped out in the Holocaust. The Chasidim suffered proportionately […]

Courtesy: Anthony Kerstein  A brief resume of Lurianic Kabbalah, that inspired the Chasidic revolution. Isaac ben Solomon Luria (Ashkenazi – Abr. Ha Ari-the Lion)(1534 – […]

(Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev was a great Chassidic leader of 18th century Europe. It is well-documented that his love of God was […]

This week we read the parsha of Vayeshev: “And Yaakov dwelled in the land where his father had dwelled, in the Land of Canaan [37:1].” […]

(Courtesy: Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter)  This is the lesson of the Three Weeks: that even in a time of exile, even when God is most […]

Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30 (Courtesy: Rabbi Howard Cohen) What keeps Judaism going after all these years? According to verse 16, there have always been “those […]

Courtesy: Dr. Ismar Schorsch) In his comment on our parashat, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, a much beloved third-generation Hasidic master who died in 1809, […]