Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The Sforno was clear that worldly achievement was just a means to a loftier end
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
As a scholarly discipline, history is concerned with facts; but an authentically Jewish view of history can’t ignore the bigger picture, the traces of Divine involvement in histor ...
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The more we know about people, the more we know about the past. The more we know about the past, the better we are able to assess the present.
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
“This shameful bill passed controversially in the Knesset, is responsible for many premature deaths in dangerously ill people who avoided medical treatment out of fear of the drac ...
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
Decades ago, smart Jewish boys had to bang on closed doors — or slip through a narrow crack — to become “My Son the Doctor.”
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
He was a skilled diplomat of the highest order, but somehow Hasdai Ibn Shaprut found himself in the history books for his success as a weight loss coach
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
Widely regarded as the most influential early modern Hebrew textbook of the sciences, the book offered a revolutionary compilation of scientific material through the lens of Torah ...
Parshah
Perhaps, this is why, as we conclude the final eight verses of the Torah, we dance exuberantly
Voice in the Crowd
I feel it’s time we graduated from bochurim trips to their grown-up version: shul expeditions
Words Unspoken
There’s a dilemma that holds me back before responding with that very resounding “Yes”
Calligraphy: Succos 5784
Sima bristles. You would think she was the one agitating her mother. She, who had taken the entire burden of care on her shoulders. Not that she’d had the choice
Outlook
Only Succos is referred to in our prayers as zeman simchaseinu — the time of our rejoicing
