The Good Fight
It’s hard to imagine that fighting with any person can be good. There are times, however, no matter how hard a person tries to avoid it, that Hashem pushes him into the ring…
Tiferet Israel
Tiferet Israel
Tale of Two Printing Presses
A juxtaposition of good and evil: why is it so easy to perpetrate darkness in the world, yet spreading light is met with massive resistance?
Grasshoppers and Crocodiles
The reason we spent 39 extra years in the desert was simply because we let fear overrule our emuna; we were afraid of the “giants” that awaited us in the Land of Israel...
Searching for My Father
I started to thank Hashem for the abuse I survived; I thanked Him for not having a father, and all the pain around not having real parents that loved and protected me...
Holy Mamzers
Everyone despised the two children, who grew up in society's lowest possible circumstances. That is, everyone except the tzaddik, who could see the bright light of their souls...
What Can We Do?
We don’t have to wait until Mashiach gets here to do battle. We have in our hands the very same weapon he will use, and it is available to us 24 hours a day..
Mrs. Udder
It was like one of those mystical Baal Shem Tov moments, when a teacher would appear to him in the middle of the woods. Tied up to a pole was a white goat ...
The Man in the Purple Hat
Sometimes, the only thing that is more weird about certain people's eccentric appearance is their total lack of sensitivity, especially in family relationships...
Awakenings
It wasn't Peter Pan or Tinker Bell that caught my eye; the father and the two angelic little boys with the tzitzit and the payot stirred something deep down in my heart ...
Jumping Into the Fire
She imagined being connected to the courageous heart of the martyrs – the long list of Jews who when faced with the choice to die or convert to another religion, chose death…
Aliya for Dummies
Be careful in Israel - it can be very traumatizing to sit down to a healthy bowl of Peanut Butter Captain Crunch only to find out it is covered by goat milk…
From the Depths
She lived the personal holocaust of an abused child in a sick and insensitive environment; but the more she suffered, the more she became determined to find truth and meaning...