The Secrets of the Universe
When you have teenage boys in yeshiva (we call high school aged school, mesivta) you’re always hearing about this school and that…
In the intersection
My daughter drove to the top of a volcano last night, 13,802 feet above sea level. She needed to use a ladder…
What I don’t know
Bh There is what I know and there is what I don’t know and then there is everything else. The everything else…
Yud shvat farbrnegen
BH Religious ceremonies don’t usually take place in the bathroom… But there was one late Shabbat morning that our family VERY carefully…
I should have told him about the red car
It was the type of car that demanded at least 2 frozen water bottles in order to drive around the corner on…
The Secret of Chabad
Spoiler alert: there is no secret to Chabad. [As Published in the Queens Jewish Link here] The recent explosion of Jewish pride,…
Can cocaine be used for a mitzvah
Some time in the early 1900s, R. Aharon Shmuel Lichtig of Krakow posed a halachic inquiry to the Galician Torah scholar, Rabbi…
The Shabbos Cat
Danielle comes upstairs. I think it’s just to say ‘good Shabbos,’ but she’s wearing a look of worry as well as a…
Thoughts from Zalmy
Introducing Zalmy, the littlest Wertheimer with some pretty big things to say. Enjoy his first Dva’r Torah 37 second audio clip with…
Mozzarella Cheese making
You will need 1/2 gallon milk 1/2 cup vinegar 1 tsp of Salt Supplies large pot (6 qt) Small pot Wooden…
