Our Patriarch Avraham This week’s Torah reading focuses on our Patriarch Avraham (Abraham), who was faced with many hardships on his way to becoming one of the greatest people in […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz: Every Jewish boy has a brit milah– a circumcision which creates a covenant with Hashem. How does the removal of flesh form this bond? […]
Winning People You’ve probably heard the phrase, “He’s got a winning smile.” It means that when this person smiles, it wins people over, makes them comfortable, or even more so, […]
Three Meals And When To Eat Them We are told by Hashem (God) to eat three meals on Shabbat. The first takes place on Friday night, the second on Shabbat […]
Three Shabbat Meals On Shabbat, we eat three special meals where we have an opportunity to merge our neshamah (soul) and our guf (body) and uplift both of them. By […]
Hashem Reveals Himself To Avraham Avraham (Abraham) was privileged to have Hashem (God) reveal Himself to him. As we see in the opening of our parashah (Torah portion), Hashem appeared […]
וַיְבָרְכֵהוּ וַיֹּאמַר בָּרוּךְ אַבְרָם לְק-ל עֶלְיוֹן קֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ… אִם מִחוּט וְעַד שְׂרוֹךְ נַעַל וְאִם אֶקַּח מִכׇּל אֲשֶׁר לָךְ וְלֹא תֹאמַר אֲנִי הֶעֱשַׁרְתִּי אֶת אַבְרָם. He blessed him, and he […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz: Why was humanity only permitted to eat meat after the Mabul (The Great Flood)? And why did the Torah later differentiate between kosher and […]
Its A Busy Life “The day is short, and there is much work.” (Pirkei Avot) Let’s face it, life is busy and there’s always so much to do. Aside from […]
The Great Flood Happened… One of the biggest catastrophes the world ever experienced is recorded in this week’s Torah reading. The sins of the inhabitants of earth reached such a […]
