by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 23, 2018 | Lifeline
I was about 15 years old when I lost a Siddur (prayer book) on a backpacking trip near the summit of New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern United States. It must have fallen out of my pocket at a pit-stop along the hike. After my...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 16, 2018 | Lifeline
We’re told in this week’s Torah portion that when a murder victim is discovered, the elders of the city closest to the site where the body was found gather and say “Our hands did not spill this blood, and we were not witness to it (Deut 21:7).”...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 9, 2015 | Lifeline
A young man in Poland was once diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. His teacher, the holy Rabbi Yisrael Meyer Kagan, known as the Chofetz Chaim, advised him to seek a blessing from a certain scholar in another town. He asked his student not to reveal to anyone...
by Mordechai Dixler | May 21, 2015 | Lifeline
Someone asked me a question today on a passage in the Torah. In the middle of our discussion, he felt he needed to excuse his ignorance as a beginner. He said, “This is the 1st time I’m reading this text!” To that I responded, “Beautiful...
by Mordechai Dixler | Dec 19, 2014 | Lifeline
Lighting the Menorah each night after dark, seeing the children’s excitement for this beautiful Mitzvah, and singing Hallel, the festival prayer of gratitude, praise, and hope each morning for 8 days, is a reservoir of inspiration that it would be a shame to...
