Waiting for Mashiach
Between the Blackberry in our hands, the Bluetooth in our ears, and the iPod at our fingertips—who is really pining for Mashiach?
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Turning Blessings Into Brotherhood
Your success might be hurting people more than helping them—and you don’t even realize it. Discover how the Thanksgiving Offering teaches you to turn your blessings into something that uplifts everyone around you.
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The Important Meeting
We work hard for what we value, often going to extremes for financial security. But there is a greater investment with a far higher return: tefillah b’tzibbur. Communal prayer draws down blessing into both our spiritual and material lives - it demands our full effort and undivided attention.
Blowing Wind Into Bread
None of our advanced technology can replace the quiet miracle of Hashem’s breeze gliding over a wheat field. The wind we barely notice feeds the world. If we pay attention, it can feed our faith.
Practical Mercy, Part 2
“My wife and I are broken, Rabbi, we really don’t know what has happened to our sweet daughter. She was so tzaddikah, so modest, so sweet, so gentle, a homebody who always helped. And now she acts like a dybbuk (demon) got into her..."
Practical Mercy, Part I
There is no love like parents’ love for their children, and the connection starts already before birth. The parents are connected and attached to the child without even seeing him, without knowing who he is and what he is, unconnected with his deeds, or to any external factor.
The Strange Privilege of Our Generation
When the sirens sound and Jews run for shelter, we are not just surviving history — we are participating in it. Faith teaches us that even fear can become service, and even suffering can become part of redemption.
Why? Abba!
Why was I put through that traumatic experience? What's my purpose in life? What's going to be with me? Rabbi Arush shows how all of these deep questions are really one question with a single answer...
We Will Hear and We Will Do
In the Torah portion “Yitro”, we read about receiving the 10 Commandments at Sinai. What is Yitro's special way of reacting to these events? Rabbi Arush explains how Yitro’s response should be our response.
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
When fear is met with the recognition that only Hashem determines outcomes, fear dissolves into trust and the trust itself becomes protection. You fight with trust, knowing that the outcome is in Hashem's hands alone.
The Very First Haggadah
Outside, catastrophic things were happening throughout Egypt, but the Jews ate serenely. What sort of conversations were there at that first Seder? The Jews then had not yet left Egypt, so what did they talk about? Rabbi Arush gives amazing insight into serving Hashem!
You Are Not a Monkey
In our own times, we have seen human behavior deteriorate to the level of an animal. The Kalever Rebbe explains the causes and the consequences...
How We Learned to Love the Villain
The Torah never asks us to empathize with Pharoah. Lavan is not a victim. Amalek is not misunderstood. The Canaanites, Moabites, Philistines, and Midianites are not objects for our sympathy. Rather, they named for what they are: enemies.
Love of Torah – Breaking Free
How can one acquire a love of Torah and of learning Torah? It’s not as difficult as you might imagine. Read the Kalever Rebbe’s advice...
Think About YOU!
When you hear words of Mussar, do you find yourself thinking that they are meant for others (surely not yourself)? If so, the Kalever Rebbe has some advice for you!
Yosef, My Son, Is Still Alive
What does it mean for a person to be truly alive? Rabbi Arush explains how our connection to a true tzaddik brings us to our complete tikkun of personal holiness, emuna, and prayer.
Smoke Screen, Part 4
When life is sweet, who needs sugar! How can we find and connect to a true source of spiritual vitality? Rabbi Arush explains how to successfully “sweeten” our lives ...
The Quiet Victory of What Never Changed
Before you were born, before your country existed, before the world agreed on what was “right,” the Jewish People were already serving God. Not as a tradition—but as an eternal covenant that time itself can never erase.