Rabbi Shais Taub
Dr. Benjy Epstien
Rav Mordechai Burg
Rabbi Shais Taub
Moshe Schonbrun
Moshe Schonbrun
Rav Mordechai Burg
Moshe Schonbrun
Elisheva Liss LMFT
Rav Mordechai Burg
After stubbornly enduring blood, frogs, lice, wild beasts, epidemic, and boils, Pharaoh has somewhat of a breakthrough following the seventh plague, hail. It is then that he...
Haggadah Meditations Kadesh- Sanctify: At this initial phase, we fully enter into the holiness of the night. We declare that we are totally present as we consecrate...
As Pesach approaches, many people get together to bake Matzahs. Eating Matzah on Pesach that you made with your own hands is quite special. It is even...
Reasoning with the Unreasonable We all know what it’s like to be internally attacked by our own persistent patterns of negative thoughts, a nasty inner voice that...
One does not need a beverage to access the essence of Purim, much like a celiac does not need challah to experience the holiness of Shabbos. Under...
A mother recently reached out that she was struggling with how to approach Purim this year. Her son is in a residential treatment program for alcoholism. How...
The Gemara in Chullin (139b) asks, Where do we find “Esther” in the Torah? “And I will hide (astir) my face from them on that day.” Purim...
Growing up in the streets of Brooklyn, my favorite memory of Purim is the traffic logjams. While Brooklyn traffic is not at all exclusive to this one...
This Shabbos before Purim, we recall a national trauma. We were an infant nation, freshly birthed from the labor pains of slavery and miraculous redemption. We were...
“When Adar arrives, we increase in joy”. // Taanis 29a Why specifically in Adar are we being instructed to increase our joy? What does it mean to...