What is one of the biggest problems in today’s society?  Of course anxiety probably tops the list. But I would venture to say the next issue is frustration. Today almost everyone is frustrated in life.  We are frustrated by things we want to do and cannot; by things we want to get or achieve, and […]

BELOW IS A LETTER BY THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE ON THE SECURITY OF ERETZ YISRAEL. IT CERTAINLY APPLIES TO TODAY! 3rd Light of Chanukah, 5741 Brooklyn, N.Y. Highgate, London N 16 Greeting and Blessing: This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosure. I am reluctant, on principle, to involve a layman, however knowledgeable, even if

This week’s Torah portion is Lech Lecha. One of my favorites. it is the story of how G-d commands Avraham to go: leave your country, your birth place, your father’s house and go….but go where? just go and Hashem says He will show Avraham the land He wants him to go to. In life we

Before Moshiach comes, we are taught in Torah, that there is a war of Gog and Magog. There are many different facets to this and many ways the Rabbonim have interpreted this war to be.  It is not an actual physical war between nations. Chassidus explains that the war of Gog and Magog is the

The decision in Israel to convict Elor Azaria of murder is shameful! there is no other way to describe it. A totally galut mentality! How low can the court system fall?  To equate the murder of a terrorist who came to murder  Jews with regular murder is absolutely ridiculous.  Who cares if Elor killed him

Chanukah, the holiday of lights.  Hidden within those Chanukah lights is the special “ohr hagenuz”, the light with which the Almighty created the world.  And it is this light which is hidden for the future, when the reasons for all the suffering of exile will become revealed.  But even now, as we watch the flickering

Wishing everyone a ketiva vchatima tova, shana tova umetukah!  תשע"ט- Tav, Shin, Ayin, Tet, 5779 is an acronym for: – T’hei Shnat Ayin Tovah, /It will be a year of a good eye. Each of us must look at others with a good eye, with boundless love of Israel. We must love those who are not

Pure evil reared its ugly head again and one evil man shot and killed 11 innocent Jews praying on the holy day of Shabbat. As we near the final redemption with the imminent coming of Moshiach, things seem to get darker and darker and harder to even try to comprehend. But our role now is

I don’t like to get into politics but when something is wrong it hurts and I cannot remain silent. The young soldier who killed the terrorist who was supposedly “neutralized” is sitting in prison on manslaughter charges! A total injustice.  I cannot believe this is actually happening in Israel. Any terrorist who rises up to

I just heard about a really interesting new computer program for making shidduchim.  I think everyone agrees shidduchim are more challenging in general than they used to be. The ages of singles are going up. People are expressing a lot of frustration with the shidduch system and with being presented shidduchim that have nothing in