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Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The Sforno was clear that worldly achievement was just a means to a loftier end

By Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky

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 ...

By Gedalia Guttentag

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.

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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 ...

By Rabbi Eliyahu Gut

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.”

By Ari Lieberman

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

By Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

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 ...

By Yaakov Lipszyc

Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
How is that relevant to a Jewish view of medicine?

By Rabbi Edward Reichman

LifeTakes
I guess that’s why it’s okay to keep coming back to the same place; it doesn’t change, but we do

By Esther Kurtz

The Moment
The Rebbe was adamant that he did not want the talmidos to occupy the building without first davening a tefillah for success

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Match Quest
“How do you feel about doing the first date or two on Zoom?”

By Sara Eisemann

Calligraphy: Succos 5784
“I think we should call the police,” Mr. Laufer says, and Baila’s heart sinks with heavy, unsurprised disappointment. What accusations will they level against Mikki?

By Bashie Lisker

Guestlines
Succos is the zeman simchaseinu, the Days of Joy. The contrast seems abrupt and jarring — why the sudden shift in mood?

By Rav Daniel Osher Kleinman

Family Tempo
To the rest of the frum community, he’s a superstar — what a learner, what a boy — but he’ll always be that kid to me. Not to Tehila

By Bashie Lisker