One Minute Rosh Hashana Insight: The Sweetness of Apples
Isn’t dipping one sweet thing into another sweet thing redundant? Here’s why the apple’s sweetness is different than the honey’s.
One Minute Rosh HaShanah Insight: The Sweetness of Honey
Ever wondered why is honey sweeter than apples? The secret is in how we obtain it.
1 Minute Insight: Closeness to Hashem In Elul!
Just as you have to pass by the thorn to get to the beauty of the rose, so follows the process of teshuva during the month of Elul.
11 Tisha B’Av Calamities
The culmination of the Three Weeks, an annual time of mourning the destruction of The Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple) is Tisha b’Av. It is the saddest day of the Jewish year and the most calamitous in our history. So great was our pain on this day as a nation, that each year we commemorate it […]
1 Minute Tisha B’Av Insight: Why Is It Called Av?
Why would the saddest month of the year, Av, be called “father?”
She Didn’t See Me As A Person, But Now I’ll Never Make That Mistake
My second day as a working mother began with a bus ride to drop my 5 week old baby with his sitter. I prepared as best as I could, mapping the route in advance, checking the MTA schedule, packing a diaper bag, bottles of pumped milk, and my own lunch. I would soon discover how […]
