Featured on the website of Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El, these traditional melodies are chanted slowly to help young learners preparing for bar/bat mitzvah. To hear all the tracks go to Cantor Becker's MUSIC PAGE. Shabbat Candle Blessing (mp3) Hebrew/transliteration V'...
Sinwar, head of Hamas, has said he will release all terrorists if the IDF will let him go free and promise not to target him in the future. In the meantime, both John and I have a serious case of brain mush. I sent him to the store yesterday with short list of needed ingredients...
But I really believe in the power of using Shabbat as a lesson for our lives as well as making it a special day of the week, and the dogs, as always, are great role models for this. For example, I think the dogs have their own mini-Shabbat each time they go outside (unless Kevi...
In many contemporary egalitarian families, lighting candles may be done by any adult in the house — and it is often done by the family all together. Should I blow out the candles before I go to bed? No, Shabbat candles should not be extinguished but allowed to burn all the way down....
"Your gut told you to hide and wait or run. Your gut said go left or go right… and if you listened to your gut and got it wrong, you were dead. That’s it. It’s that simple. We don’t know why we chose to stop when we did, run when we did, go left, or go right wh...
live a chilled and relaxed life of rote and habit. This inspiration the Torah calls פלא a wonder, by the fact that he is willing to go against the style, the tide, and herd conformity of most people. But what does he do with his inspiration and how does he achieve his goal...
Somehow this fad dysfunction caught on quickly. There still were some sane people who didn’t go along with the Emperor’s new clothes and asked where is the self control? Saying I am in a bad mood and using it as an excuse, is tantamount to having an “adult tantrum” without the...
preparation, it is considered as if you didn’t even start preparing. Only with this realization you can now go and receive Hashem and His Torah the following day. A third thought on this matter is the chait of Aitz Hadaas happened because Adam added a non-prescribed attachment to the ...