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Six Ways to Bring the Joy of Torah into Your Life
Sep 28, 2026 · original
On Simchat Torah, Jews around the world finish the yearly Torah reading cycle, and then immediately start it again. Here are six ways to renew your connection to the Torah and turn the holiday's singing and dancing into joy that lasts the rest of the year. 1. Focus on one Torah teaching that resonates with you. Choose one idea from the Torah that speaks to you and think about it during the dancing and prayers. You don't have to understand every word or connect with every idea. Ask yourself: What idea can inspire me today? What is the Torah saying to me right now? 2. Turn learning into action. The real joy of the Torah comes when ideas move from your head into your life. If the teaching you're focusing on is about kindness, add one intentional act of giving to your day. If it's about gratitude, thank God for something you usually take for granted. Knowing what matters is not the same as a
Conduit and Criterion: Israel and the Nations
Sep 28, 2026 · original
God tells Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and through you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). We naturally focus on the blessing. Abraham and his descendants are to bring something into the world – ethical monotheism, Torah, moral seriousness, a way of sanctifying ordinary life. Israel becomes a channel through which blessing reaches beyond Israel. I call that first function conduit. But the verse contains another movement. The nations do not merely receive something through Abraham. Their response to Abraham matters. Blessing and curse return upon those who bless or curse him. Israel is therefore not only a conduit. Israel also becomes a criterion: an encounter that reveals something about the one doing the encountering. Conduit and criterion. Those two words have become, for me, a way of reading the Abraha
The Toy Torah a Soldier Found in Gaza
Sep 28, 2026 · original
It’s an incongruous site: An Israeli soldier stands amid the rubble of a building in Lebanon, holding a child's plush Torah scroll. It is the kind of toy children receive for Simchat Torah, so they can join the joyous dancing with a Torah of their own. This toy Torah scroll traveled through the darkest chapter in recent Jewish history. A Stuffed Torah in Khan Yunis After the Hamas invasion and massacre on October 7, 2023, Avi Kramer and his unit were sent into Gaza. He served in the IDF Paratroopers Brigade's 202nd Battalion, known as the Viper Battalion. Avi's role was search and rescue. If a soldier was wounded, he would enter the firefight and extract him to safety. For the first months of the war, Avi was stationed inside Gaza, returning to Israel for only a few days each month. Toward the end of 2023, his unit was operating in Khan Yunis, a major Hamas stronghold in the southern Gaz
A Dating Coach for Guys Shares His 10 Best Tips
Sep 27, 2026 · original
Arman Aaron Dounel had doubts he’d ever get married. Growing up in a family marked by divorce, he struggled through his own dating experiences, wondering if his family history meant something was wrong with him. “I went on many dates that weren’t leading anywhere,” he recalls, “I started thinking marriage wasn’t going to happen for me.” Eventually, he realized he had a choice: Allow his past to become his identity—or decide his past was simply a part of his story. “I changed my perspective and my narrative,” he says, “I didn’t allow my past to determine my future. I focused on myself, bettered myself, loved myself, and didn’t let other people—my family, their history, or their actions—define who I was becoming.” That shift changed everything. Eventually he met Simone, the woman he would marry. His experience became the foundation for much of what he now teaches others as a dating coach f
Who Invented the Weekend?
Sep 24, 2026 · original
We take the two-day weekend for granted, but it's barely a century old. And a surprising part of its story runs through Jewish workers and the rabbis who fought for their right to keep Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. A Jewish Invention Ancient societies marked time in all kinds of ways. Some divided the month into ten-day periods, others into eight-day cycles, often with a festival at the end of each. Sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel, who studied calendars from around the world, found that nearly every culture separates ordinary days from holy ones. But one system stands apart. "A continuous seven-day cycle that runs throughout history paying no attention whatsoever to the moon and its phases is a distinctively Jewish invention," he writes in The Seven Day Circle . That cycle begins in the Tora). After six days of creation, "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it" (Genesis 2:3). The Tor
The Secret of Happiness Hidden in the Sukkah
Sep 24, 2026 · original
The Torah calls Sukkot "the time of our joy." This is the festival meant to teach us how to be happy in the world. Strangely, though, we don't do anything obviously happy. We leave our homes and move into a sukkah, a hut with a roof so flimsy it isn't even waterproof. What does that have to do with happiness? Everything. A Verse That Doesn't Add Up The Book of Leviticus (23:43) explains the reason for the holiday: "So that your future generations will know that I placed the Children of Israel in sukkot (huts) when I took them out of the land of Egypt." There's just one problem. The Torah never describes the Israelites living in sukkot when God took them out of Egypt. Throughout the 40 years in the desert, whenever the Torah mentions where they lived, it's always an ohel , a tent. Never a sukkah. So how do we make sense of this? I want to share an idea I find very exciting, but first, one
When Your Heart Stops: The Hidden Message of Sukkot
Sep 23, 2026 · original
Imagine for a moment that your heart stops beating. There’s no pulse, no breath, and suddenly you are no longer in control of what happens next. A woman in our community experienced exactly that when, while out at a birthday dinner, she suddenly collapsed and her heart completely stopped. The restaurant called an ambulance and while they were waiting for help, her heart started beating again. But when she arrived at the hospital, she flatlined and literally died. Her husband stood there terrified and helpless, with nothing he could do medically, so he began to pray with an intensity he had never felt before. He had said the words countless times, but never like this, never with his wife’s life hanging in the balance, as he begged God to bring the dead back to life. Thank God, after what must have felt like an eternity, her heart began to beat again. Today, she is alive and well, with a p
The Macklemore Mess: What Pink Got Right and Everyone Else Got Wrong
Sep 23, 2026 · original
What started as Macklemore’s hijacking of Ed Sheeran’s concert tour via a Free Palestine message has spiraled into international news, reigniting the Israel/Palestine debate, and almost canceling Ed Sheeran’s tour altogether. Patriots owner Robert Kraft tried to silence Macklemore. Ed Sheeran tried to remain silent. And Jewish singer/songwriter Pink inserted herself into the debacle commenting on social media via her Jewish experience. But whose efforts helped the situation and whose made everything blow cataclysmically out of proportion? Most importantly what do we have to learn in this ever-increasing controversy that is as personal as it is political? If you’re somehow not familiar with the events, here is a quick summary. At Ed Sheeran’s concerts on September 4th and 5th, rapper and master of poor fashion choices Macklemore delivered an extended political message about the war in Gaz
True Happiness
Sep 23, 2026 · original
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Sukkot 5787: Joy to the World
Sep 22, 2026 · original
GOOD MORNING! This upcoming Friday night, September 25th, begins the seven-day holiday of Sukkot (eight days outside of Israel). This holiday is unique in many ways, not the least of which is that it is known as “ zman simchateinu – time of our joy.” Although the word “joy” is sometimes used interchangeably with the word “happy” they are actually very different words. Happy is a description of a momentary state of being; how you are feeling at a given moment. A person can be happy, sad, angry, jealous, etc. These are generally outcomes caused by a specific event or occurrence. I am reminded of the quote, “Some people bring happiness wherever they go; and others whenever they go.” However, joy is a state of mind that comes from lasting relationships, working towards meaningful goals and achievements, and living with a set of values and ideals. Of course, a joyous person will also experien

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