Foundations of Judaism

Even if the house is upside down and the laundry basket overflowing, before rushing to organize the house, a woman should spend an hour in Hitbodedut...

How do you begin to create an intimate relationship with the One you love? By speaking often to your Beloved, calling your loved One by name, praising...

Ronny the flashy day-trader drives a new Audi A4 convertible with a supercharged 2300 CC engine; he certainly won't let some Haredi nerd preach to him…

People think that hitbodedut – personal prayer – is some kind of Breslever nuance. The Chafetz Chaim spent 2 hours a day in personal prayer and implores others to do the same.

If modesty is such a high priority for women in a Torah society, I ask, why don't we wear thick veils over our faces, and gloves to cover our hands?

The Kotel, it beckons me; it reaches out to me to pour out my heart on its sun drenched stones. Every Friday night I walk to the Kotel for...

Through the teachings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his disciples, who were great Torah scholars in their own right, the Zohar reveals the spiritual blueprint...

From the secrets of Torah found in the Zohar, we discover that the holiness of our sexual lives is the key to spiritual and material blessing, both for...

Engrave this deeply into your mind and heart - the past does not exist! One should not think about the past at all, and it certainly has no right to affect the future...

Through these commandments we're able to cleave to God with the entirety of our selves. Just because we live in a state of not knowing, it doesn't mean that we...

Everyone wants to be protected from any sort of mishap, and our holy books clearly tell us how to prevent such things. However, because of...

If I don't have air conditioning, does it means that I am not supposed to have air conditioning? If I only have one nice dress for Yom Tov...

The trumpets blast! The royal carriage has arrived. Trembling with anticipation...

“If you love your fellow man you’ll know what he needs." We'll feel his pain and have the ability to understand...

These words are especially relevant today. We live in a generation in which thousands of people suffer from the boredom of unfulfilled lives...

Rebbe Nachman said: “The Divine Intellect that is in all things will enlighten him…because the sechel is a great light that can illuminate all one’s ways.”

Date of Passing: 30-Sivan. R' Shlomo Kluger was one of the leading halachic authorities and among the most prolific writers of the 19th century.

Date of Passing: 18-Iyar. In his short but incredibly productive life, Rabbi Moshe put an indelible stamp on the world of Torah scholarship...

Reb Shmuel Isaac became a follower of Rebbe Nachman when Rebbe Nachman lived in Medvedevka. Reb Shmuel Isaac lived in abject poverty...

Date of Passing: 3-Tammuz. The seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, eldest son of the saintly Kabbalist, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, fifth in direct paternal line from...

Yes, I took out the darn 10-watt bulb! I don't even know where it is now! And I don't miss it! I can see inside my refrigerator just fine without the confounded thing!

The first thing I noticed was the black silk yarmulke on Mr. Levi's head and the television in the corner. "These people can't be too religious," I assumed.

Jacobo couldn't help but second guess himself. Had he acted correctly? There would be other Sabbaths when he would be in the synagogue, but now...

In Alim Literufa Reb Nosson, zt”l, writes “The most important thing is to start fresh from Shabbat. In truth we must begin anew every single day...