Wednesday comes our fresh organic local produce delivery and boy, is it crazy amazing!!! If you’ve ever read the Biblical story of the 12 spies in the book of Numbers, you’ll remember that they came back LOADED with giant fruits and vegetables!!! And a bad report about ‘giants’ li...
5 pp. 293-4), Children in Halacha (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, pg 135). The Shulchan Aruch 314:1 based on the gemara (Shabbos 122b) comes to the conclusion that there is not a prohibition of boneh in regard to keilim. Therefore, in S”A 313:6 he writes one can put together ...
Shirah transcends time. It requires the full perspective not only for today’s joy but also yesterday’s pains. Awareness of hardship and the joy, galut and geulah, creates fullness and harmony in one’s life; it teaches that such things “emanated from God . . . let us rejoice and be ...
Delighting in the Shabbat has evolved over time and is expressed today in Jewish and Messianic communities in more modern but still traditional ways, especially when it comes to fellowship and food. Family fellowship over dinner on Erev Shabbat (Friday evening) Delighting in Fellowship and Food Mea...
We who perform the Commandments of the Torah in exile often worry about our future; but when the Redemption comes we will reap the reward for our work with happy songs. When a person plants, he might worry that the crop will not be successful, ...
workweek, then we will focus on the stark recognition of the שור and חמור which know very well from whom their sustenance comes from. This entire concept is hinted in thegematriahofשור חמורwhich equalsביום שבת. I surmise that if ou...
TheProphet Zechariahpromises that the darkness that comes from our sin, which separates us from God, will be supernaturally lifted in a single day by His Righteous Branch. “I am going to bring My servant, the Branch. … and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.”(...
eelah when we say the gates of heaven are closing we do not mean they are closing shut only for our tefillos of this day of Yom Kippur. We include in this proclamation that they are closing for good on all the unaccepted tefillos of the past year. Today is the last opportunity and...
unique is the way our entire community comes together to plan and to enjoy. The need to belong is a basic need for all of us. Let us give our children their connection to the Jewish community and to Israel. Let us also create an environment, in all of our organizations, that is ...
What's Annoying Jews Today Trayf of the Week: Bacon Jam - Just when you thought it was safe to eat your bagels in mixed company, comes this devilish concoction. Next time a Goyishe friend offers you a shmear, mak... 13 years ago www.blog.rabbijason.com - JBlog Central: Top-...