Talk to Me
Picture the scene: You’re standing in a supermarket checkout line behind a toddler clinging on to his mother’s hand. Most youngsters feel like prisoners in a sweet shop at the checkout line because they are surrounded by all manner of…
Are you wise?!
A Jew was riding on a train travelling through Russia. Seated next to him was a soldier of the Czar quietly boiling and seething with deep hatred toward the Jew. In one moment he let loose his anger to the…
At the Double
This Shabbat we commence a series of seven Shabbatot wherein we read special Haphtarot of comfort, Shiv’ah De’Nechamatah, taking us to Rosh Hashanah. The first opens with Hashem’s instruction to the prophet Yishayahu: “Nachamu nachamu ami – comfort, oh comfort…
SHEMA – GIVE WITNESS!
There is a famous story of a traveller who visited one of the greatest rabbis of the last generation – the Chafetz Chaim. The traveller entered the humble abode of the Chafetz Chaim and was astonished by the meagre accommodation.…
