Daily Kavanah – Thursday, February 25, 2021
One day, the villagers noticed that their teacher, Rabbi Natan Tzvi Finkel (b. 1849), also known as the Alter of Slabodka (say that [...]
One day, the villagers noticed that their teacher, Rabbi Natan Tzvi Finkel (b. 1849), also known as the Alter of Slabodka (say that [...]
The Divine Presence only dwells in a space where there is joy; the prophets did not experience prophecy whenever they desired. Instead, they [...]
When I think about Purim, I have so many happy memories—hilarious costume parades, different flavors of hamantaschen (team poppy seed!), and the many [...]
אוֹר זָרֻעַ לַצַּדִּיק וּלְיִשְׁרֵי-לֵב שִׂמְחָה Light is sown for the righteous, and for the upright of heart, joy! During the Hebrew month of [...]
The Shabbat prior to Purim is always celebrated as Shabbat Zachor, a testament to the unprovoked attack by Amalek upon the Israelites, as recounted [...]
“No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.” On this day in 1859, the [...]
On this day in 1856, Heinrich Heine, the famous Jewish poet and satirist who converted to Lutheranism, passed away. Before his conversion in [...]
On February 16, 1963, The New Yorker printed the first of Hannah Arendt’s extensive reports on the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, which began two [...]
On this day in 1781, the world bid farewell to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a Christian German author, playwright, critic, and philosopher, as well [...]
If you like “mitzvahs” (commandments), you will love Mishpatim as it contains the most mitzvot of any Torah portion. Every day this week [...]