Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz When Yitro arrived in the desert to join the Jewish People, he criticized Moshe (Moses)’s handling of the court system and offered him […]
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Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Why do the Jewish people use a lunar calendar while other nations use a solar one? And why is its use the very […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz The world is in shock over the wildfires raging in California, where lives have been lost and the destruction is nothing short of […]
Why Did God Inflict Disaster? In this week’s Torah reading, God commanded Moshe (Moses), time after time, to strike the land of Egypt with plagues, as a consequence for Pharaoh’s […]
The Powerhouse of Bitachon Bitachon—trust in Hashem (God)—is always the call of the hour. However, now more than ever, with challenges all around us, this function remains more important than […]
The Torah tells us that when Rivkah (Rebecca) had an unusual pregnancy experience, she went to inquire from Hashem what it meant. It was then said to her that the […]
A Red Shockwave As we write these lines, the USA, and in fact the entire civilized world, and in a way Klal Yisrael (the Jewish nation) in particular, are witnessing […]
A Frightening Judgement Look around you on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur as the powerful, frightening piyut (liturgical poem) of Unetaneh Tokef is sung during the Mussaf prayer. This awe-inspiring section depicts […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Every year, during the “Three Weeks,” we mourn the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, our Holy Temple. While I try to keep the […]