Jewish Ethics and Learning
Mussar
An Unconscious Mother of A Newborn Wakes Up, Just As Rav...
An incredible miracle concerning a woman in labor who miraculously woke up after losing consciousness during childbirth was published a few months ago in the newspaper...
Connecting the World to Hashem
10-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
The Fine Line Between Self-Esteem and Arrogance
12-minute video class given by Rebbetzin Rachel Rudman.
Our Sages
The Miracle of the Rambam’s Burial Place
Rabbi Moshe Maimonides, the famous Rambam, was one of the most remarkable Jews of all times. He was the author of many books wherein he explained the laws and philosophy...
Why Do Tzaddikim Have Challenges?
Question: Why should the righteous be more challenged by (unfortunate) hardships in this world, when their only desire is to fulfill the Torah and its Mitzvot perfectly?
Rav Kanievsky: "Beware, Every Word You Say Has an Effect on...
Day in, day out, Rav Chaim Kanievsky of Bnei Brak listens to the sorrows of countless members of the Jewish nation, as they mention to him the names of their sick and...
Teshuva
Back to My Roots Thanks to An Arab
4-minute story told by Rav Shmuel GALANDAUER.
Open a Door as Tiny as the Eye of a Needle
Our sages interpret a passage from Midrash Rabbah on the Song of Songs (5.3): "Open to me my sister, my bride", as "open a door as tiny as the eye of a needle and I will...
The Secret of Teshuva: Having High Ambitions
One of the most extraordinary mitzvot of the Torah is that of the red cow, about which Shlomo Hamelech said, ''I would like to make myself master of wisdom! But it is...
Torah Learning
The Book of Melachim 2: Why Was David Cold?
13-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
The Professor from the Paris-Sorbonne's Remark
Shlomo Moshe, a friendly young man, had come from Morocco to Israel with the fervent desire to become a Torah scholar. This era - the 1950s - was that of the early days...
Halacha- Preparations for the Pesach Seder Table
Halacha- Preparations for the Pesach Seder Table
Messianic Times
Tzfat: The Quarrel that Delayed the Coming of Mashiach
The Arizal (Rav Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi), the most outstanding Kabbalist of all time, lived in a cloister of houses encircling a courtyard in the holy city of Tzfat....
Amanda Todd's Suicide: Humanity Has Reached Rock Bottom
It’s something of a cliché that, following a disaster of sufficiently large scale, people of various faiths start declaring it the end of days. 9/11? The...
Torah & Science
Darwin and the Carnivorous Plant
It is said that when Darwin observed a carnivorous plant trapping flies, he was very surprised. But in truth, there is nothing surprising about that. At the end of...
The Dandilion: a Divine Flower
Let us try to focus on the flower called the "Dandelion", which grows in our gardens. At this stage of our study, we will not go into detail about the extraordinary and...
How Elephants Talk to Each Other Long Distance
For many years, scientists have tried to figure out how elephants talk to each other long distance, even several miles away. When a herd of elephants is scattered over...
Speech Laws
The Sword in the Tongue
There is a terrible ordeal from which many of our people suffer. In the Torah, such an affliction is called onas devarim – verbal abuse. While we are all familiar...
Chassidut
The Crown of the Torah
11-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
The Concept of Disagreements
17-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
Maintaining Enthusiasm in One's Avodat Hashem
13-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
Beit Hamikdash
What Is the Importance of a Beit Hamikdash (Temple)?
Question: What is the benefit of a Temple if we have the Torah and the Mitzvot that direct us?
In Our Times The Synagogue Can Replace the Beit Hamikdash
16-minute video class given by Rav Binyamin BITENSKY.
Jewish Thinking
A Material and Spiritual Jackpot
7-minute story told by Rav Shmuel GALANDAUER.
Shmonei Essrei: The First Blessing
12-minute video class given by Rav Pesach SIEGEL.
Why Do We Say "Tzetchem L'Shalom" ?
13-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
Middot
Hilchot Deot Chapter 1, Halacha 1
10-minute video class given by Rav Avi GROSSMAN.
3 Steps to Attaining Free Love
Rebbetzin Kolodetsky follows the path of her mother Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky, of blessed memory, caring for thousands of women spiritually, morally and physically.
Only a Former Sinner Can Become Humble
We live in a time when even the "humblest" among us maintains a blog, a Twitter account, a website, or any other outlet to make his voice heard, express his thoughts and...
Tzniut
Tzniut: Modesty Is Cherished by G-d
7-minute video class given by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller.
A Jewish Woman: Enveloped Like a Sefer Torah
Today's society only values a woman's external appearance, thus causing her to concentrate on her exterior facade and overlook her internal value. In the 21st...
Jewish History
The Book of Melachim (Part 1): David's Old Age
11-minute video class given by Rav Zave RUDMAN.
Story: The Meal Swapped on the Plane
A Rosh Yeshiva recounts the following story: I was once on the plane and I had just received my meal, and I had opened the wrapper, whereupon I had a pressing need. I...
Story: On Board the Titanic
In 1910, Sam Aks, a native of Poland, emigrated to England where he married Leah Rosen. After their marriage, they lived in London for a while and then they decided to...
Money & Business
Rav Kanievsky’s Story: “The Soul of Your Borrower...
Rav Chaim Kanievsky recommends that money lenders never keep unpaid loan documents handy.
Beth Din–Can a First Born Relinquish his Inheritance...
Here is a concrete legal case handled by the rabbinical courts. We have chosen this example to help you learn, ponder upon and gradually assimilate "Daat Torah", so your...
Beth Din: Last Will and Testament Halachically Incorrect
Here is a concrete legal case handled by the rabbinical courts. We have chosen this example to help you learn, ponder upon and gradually assimilate "Daat Torah", so your...
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