Parshas Bamidbar
Rabbi Berel Wein This week’s reading as well as the entire book of Bamidbar is replete with the numbers of the populations of the Jewish people in the desert of Sinai. Slightly more than 600,000 male Jews over the age of twenty comprise the population of the Jewish people under the leadership of Moshe. Extrapolating […]
Ma’aser Motivations
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Torah awarded kohanim with terumah gifts. After terumah was separated from freshly grown Israeli produce, the farmer would separate 10% of what remained and give that to a Levi. This is termed Ma’aser Rishon. Talmud Bavli (Yevamos 86b) records an incident that occurred regarding a dispute between Rebbe Akiva and Rebbe […]
The Evolution of the Tax Professional Starts Here
Allan Rolnick, CPA Many years ago, ambitious social climbers had just two career tracks to choose from: you could hunt or you could gather. (Cave painting was a fun hobby, but no one had figured out how to monetize it.) Training was entirely on-the-job. There were no classrooms, written exams, or licensing boards, and “distance […]
The Jews of Megilas Rus
Rabbi Zvi Teichman On Shavuos we all entered an eternal covenant with Hashem. Every single Jew present at Sinai underwent a ‘conversion’, undergoing circumcision, immersion and of course a formal acceptance of all 613 mitzvos. Throughout history there have been many remarkable individuals from amongst the other nations who have ‘chosen’ to enter this special […]
Chayeinu Presents Sessions for National Prizma Mental Health Summit
From May 15th – May 17th, Prizmah Center for Jewish Days Schools held their virtual Mental Health Summit. The three-day conference for Jewish day school educators and staff had presentations from top experts in fields relevant to the social-emotional mental health of our Jewish day schools. Colleagues from across North America participated in an interactive […]
Rabbi Chanina Szendro, Yeshivas Toras Chaim’s Row-A-Thon
Please tell us a little about yourself. I grew up in Providence, RI enveloped by a warm, caring, Torah community. I spent much of my formative years here in Baltimore at Ner Yisroel. With the encouragement of Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlit”a, I ran a summer program, Kesher Scouting, for twelve years. I always dreamt of […]
JCSL by “Shimz Cars” Reaches Mid-Point of The 2022 Season
With four games completed, the 2022 season of JCSL by Shimz Cars is running smoothly. And with the parity in team strength this season, the Camp Shoresh Title is still up for grabs. Players continue to show up each week to the well-manicured Fired Up Promotions fields, wearing their snazzy Web Interactive Technologies jerseys. And […]
Kehillas Ohr Yisrael Celebrates a Hachnasas Sefer Torah
Kehillas Ohr Yisrael, a vibrant community under dynamic Torah leadership, led by the young & energetic Rabbi Duvi Rubin, welcomed their first new Sefer Torah given by Moshe & Shoshi Meystel, in memory of their grandparents, with heartfelt & joyous singing and dancing. Hundreds of people escorted the Torah down Lightfoot Drive from the Meystel […]
Parshas Bechukosei
Rabbi Berel Wein This week’s Torah reading marks the end of the book of Vayikra. This, the third book of the Torah, is replete with laws, commandments, and descriptions of Temple services. It is also the book that contains the fundamental principles of human relationships, as envisioned by the Torah and Jewish tradition. It is […]
Misophonia
Rabbi Azriel Hauptman Misophonia, which literally means hatred of sound, is a condition where an individual is extremely sensitive to certain types of sounds. The triggering sounds are commonly related to the mouth (such as eating, lip-smacking, chewing, breathing, etc.), but can also include other sounds such as someone typing on a keyboard. The stress […]
