Open Your Eyes
Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat before 9th of Av, is an auspicious time to focus on love and unity in the Jewish people and the entire world. READ RABBI ARUSH'S SPECIAL MESSAGE...
Three Weeks
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Crying for the Right Reason
On Tisha B'Av, we cry because Hashem has no home, His presence (Shechinah) is in exile, and we are far away from Him - NOT because of our personal suffering.
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History Repeats Itself
In these times, when it is harder for everyone to make a living, let's pay more attention to our friends: listen to them, encourage them, be considerate. Give more tzedaka and help. Read an unbelievable, true story of such a person...
Giving is Living
As we progress through the three weeks of mourning for the destruction of the Holy Temple and our extended exile, let’s remember that the cause is baseless hatred. This can only be remedied by fostering love of Yisrael, both within ourselves and others.
My Noahide Tisha B’Av
It can be challenging to connect emotionally to something we’ve never seen, something that happened so long ago, but I want to encourage you that it is possible.
Gratitude, the Three Weeks, and Redemption
When we travel on the path of gratitude, the Evil Inclination sets up land mines and booby traps. How can we possibly succeed? Here are some simple suggestions...
Ronen, Ruth and Rabbi YZL
Perhaps in light of losing Ronen and the fast approaching commemoration of the Temples’ destruction, we could find it in ourselves to strengthen our love between each other…
A Beautiful World
You wouldn't expect this to be the title of an article for the Three Weeks. But instead of lamenting, let’s become proactive and rectify the reason why we lost our Holy Temple…
The Toothpick Salvation
Shabbat Chazon: The evil inclination embodied itself in a carrot shred that decided to become a squatter between two of my teeth. It laughed at my travel toothbrush...
Tisha B’Av, Why?
Living emuna demands that we change our vision and start believing that Hashem actively guides us from moment to moment in every aspect of our lives...
Why Another Tisha B’av?
Hashem leads us down the path that we choose for ourselves. If we made more of an effort to discover the joy of Judaism, maybe we'd rejoice on Tisha B'av...
The War Effort
Israel has plenty of hi-tech and state-of-the-art weapons, but they can't stop the wave of knife-wielding terror that affects our entire country…
Ending Baseless Hatred
The most basic component of hatred is judgment. We erroneously decide that the one we are judging should be abhorred or, at least, sneered at…
Bookworm in the Mikva
I couldn't believe it. There he was, sitting on the bench in the corner of the communal dressing/undressing area in the mikva, reading a book and impervious to the whole world...
Pitfalls of Perception
The Three Weeks are a time to reflect as to where our intellects have taken us. Arrogance is when a person expects the world to function according to his logic; as such, even people of the highest intelligence are liable to make grave mistakes.
Covenant of Peace
The jealousy and competition between groups, when each claims that his particular group is the master of the truth, is far from true service of Hashem...
Get it Right!
Warped values and skewed stringencies led to the destruction of both temples, where human life was less important than turning over the sacrificial meat and bones on the altar...
Bar Kamtza’s Kiddush
Are we all a nation of Bar Kamtzas, holding grudges? Then why hasn't our Holy Temple been rebuilt already? It's time we look in the mirror...