Time, Space and Soul at the Kotel
On my recent trip to Eretz Yisroel, I had the good fortune to rent an apartment in Kfar David in Mamilla, very close to the Jaffa Gate. I davened almost every Tefillah at the Kotel, except for Shabbos...
View Article“Just One Shabbos” Project
How many times have I sung the song, “Just One Shabbos” With the monumental Shabbos Project starting soon and involving over 212 cities and 33 countries, the magnitude of this grassroots project is...
View ArticlePurim: Netanyahu, Congress, And The Battle Against Persia – A War Fought In...
TorahAnytime.Com uses the tag line of “G-d’s Reason for the Internet” by which they mean that the learning of Torah and spiritual growth is the reason that G-d created the Internet. Of course, that’s...
View ArticleBittersweet – Rosh Chodesh Av
Rosh Chodesh Av is amongst the strangest of days. As we’re aware, Rosh Chodesh Av marks the commencement of the nine day mourning period culminating in the most tragic and mournful day of the year,...
View ArticleThe Three Keys To Jewish Happiness – Connection, Connection, Connection
The Improbable Happiness of Israelis The WSJ ran an article yesterday titled “The Improbable Happiness of Israelis”, which pointed out that Israelis rank 11th of 158 countries in the United Nations’s...
View ArticleAntidote for Baseless Hatred
We’re in the three weeks and Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller was kind enough to allow us to repost this article on Beyond BT. For more tapes and articles by Rebbetzin Heller please visit her site. To listen...
View ArticleApproaches to Judging Favorably
We’re in the midst of the Three Week period leading up to Tisha B’Av and the Avodah (work) of this period is on Bein Adam L’Chaveiro (improving relations between man and his fellow). Here are some...
View ArticleAntidote for Baseless Hatred – Part 2 – Loving Your Fellow Jew
Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller was kind enough to allow us to repost this article on Beyond BT during the 3 weeks. For more tapes and articles by Rebbetzin Heller please visit her site. By Rebbetzin...
View ArticleLearning to Get Along with People of Wildly Different Persuasions
By Zev Gotkin There is a lot of talk these days in the media about ‘polarization,’ especially within the context of politics. Often it seems as if being a ‘moderate’ is going out of style. Being...
View ArticleIf you Really Want Unity, Stop Sleeping!
Yisro-An installment in the series of adaptations From the Waters of the Shiloah: Plumbing the Depths of the Izhbitzer School For series introduction CLICK By Rabbi Dovid Schwartz … and Israel camped...
View ArticleChessed, Gratitude and Love
In his sefer “Getting to Know Your Soul”, Rav Itamar Shwartz, the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh teaches us some important lessons about Chessed: “Love has three layers in the soul. The outermost...
View ArticleUnity, Diversity, the 9th of Av
During the summer months we tragically have to contend with the period of the Three Weeks and ט באב, the Ninth of Av. Our mourning centers around the physical and spiritual destruction of the holy...
View ArticleOn Disabling the “Frumkeit-Checker” In My Brain
On a school vacation day a number of years ago, here in the Holy Land, I’m out with my brood at an amusement park. The children are scattered; some on the bumper cars, others on trampolines and I’m at...
View ArticleThe Three Weeks – Building the World with Ahavas Chinam
Rav Itamar Shwarz, the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh Download a number of Drashos on the Three Weeks and Tisha B’Ave Binah/Binyan – The Power To ‘Build’ Through Our Understandings בינה לאנוש...
View ArticleThe Nine Days: Awakening Yourself To Tears
Rav Itamar Shwarz, the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh Download a number of Drashos on the Three Weeks and Tisha B’Ave How Do You Feel Sad At Something You Never Saw? Our avodah during the Nine...
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