Tragic Fire
Last week, after Shabbat ended the dishwasher was running, the table was clear and the kids were in p’jamas. Most of us…
Purim Torah
ב”ה פורים תורה מנחם מענדל וורטהיימר ווי ווייסט מען אז אויב גוט וועט זיין אויף די קעניג וועט די דבר מלכות…
Shmuzin’ with Shoshi
A word about Passover; Tatty-comes-home-from-shul
Short Torahs from Mendel!
MM-chayei-sarah MM-Toldos-3 wells Vayishlach Va’erah – Moshe’s words to Pharaoh only made the Jews work harder, why?! Purim
Sinai Scholars
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Noble Rot
The very term “kosher wine” used to conjure up the image of a Manischewitz bottle, containing syrupy, sweet wine. That has drastically…
Founding Fathers
There is a common Jewish custom, that on Shabbat afternoons, between Passover and Shavuot, one studies a chapter of Ethics of Our…
My Fig Tree
In my backyard, I have an Italian fig tree, a gift from my friend Stu. The leaves are just now beginning to…
Thief!
The opponents of the Chassidic movement once asked the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, what he had accomplished with his…
Chaim’s Vodka Seder
One Pesach, it seemed to the Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, that he had performed the Seder with all the proper…
