Elul – The Effects We Have on Others
This is the season for change, for reinforcing the positive and taking steps to divest ourselves of the negative
Is a Cure for Alzheimer’s Here?
Researchers in Oxford University think so
Yishmael – The Wrong Type of Kindness
Yishmael represents the negative form of kindness. Why did he so abuse this trait that he received from Avraham Avinu?
Telling a Small Child to Do Melacha on Shabbat
Is one allowed to tell a young child to perform forbidden work on Shabbat? What if the child does it…
Lighting Shabbat Candles, What’s it All About?
Why do women light Shabbat candles to usher in the Shabbat?
Solomon Murderer: ‘A Humane Terrorist’
He only killed 3 people and tried killing a 4th but he didn’t kill the children, that is so humane
Moral Dilemmas in Everyday Life – How do we Decide?
Fascinating lecture by Rabbi Dr Akiva Tatz at the Sinai Indaba annual Torah convention in South Africa
Nutrition: An Egg a Day?
You heard of an apple a day keeping the doctor away but an egg a day?
Original: Decorated Home with Bright Dreidel Lights and Giant Menorahs
Jews from Houston, Texas, came up with an original idea this Chanukah. They decided to decorate their home with colored…
Shaping One’s Character — Only in This World!
While man is in the land of the living, he can mold his character — for the physical body, with…