The Torah vividly describes galut as a punishment and curse.

If you encounter a stranger crying in a public place, what do you do? For many people, a natural instinct is avoidance. Rabbi ...

Queen Esther, who is Jacob’s rose, and purple, Mordecai, are heroes, for they fought our foes: their names will never die! Oh ...

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

A quote, written in the second century and attributed to Rabbi Tarfon, has been in the forefront of my mind lately.

I include this because a whip is a weapon. A real weapon tipped with bone, iron or something sharp. Weapons in the temple grounds are forbidden. The Mishnah clearly prohibits a staff, so it is ...