"Tell them that you are ready to offer a dowry of 2,000 silver rubles, as long as the groom is a Torah scholar and from a respectable family.”

The tone of our voice carries strong messages. Children hear the nuances of our voice, and their emotions are affected by them.

Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneersohn’s manifesto against self-righteousness in interpersonal discourse

It is absurd to think that an arkthe length of a football field-and-a-half can house the nearly million speciesof animals that roam the Earth.

After the Great Flood, man had again begun to multiply and fill the earth. They all spoke one language and understood one another well. Then things went wrong…

Is there a window of compassion and understanding that I haven’t opened? Can I see past my gut-instinct judgmentalism and allow myself to experience some of their light?

It is a beautiful and colorful aspect of G‑d’s world, but it’s also a reminder of tragedy. We are taught not to stare at it, but we do make a special blessing when it appears in the sky. Let’s see[…]

Long before the ancient Greeks, the Bible recorded that the dove brought an olive branch tothe ark.

How one-quarter can make a whole Jew