by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 17, 2009 | Lifeline
This Shabbos, we will celebrate Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year. We will celebrate, but with sobriety and solemnity, because our Tradition teaches that G-d Judges the world and each individual on this great day. It is a time for turning away from past errors, and...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 28, 2009 | Lifeline
Our Torah portion begins with an instruction for soldiers going out to war. Throughout the ages, soldiers often regarded the most primitive and bestial conduct as legitimate with regards to the citizens of conquered territory. The Jewish soldier was, perhaps...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 9, 2009 | Lifeline
We’re “Tweeting” for Torah! Twitter is a rapidly-growing phenomenon in the area of “social networking,” which people use to provide brief updates to others on what they are doing, “deeds great and small.” Given its positive...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 29, 2009 | Lifeline
I believe that you learn a lot about a culture from its heroes. If you need evidence that the European High Middle Ages were murderous, brutal and primitive, look at the heroes of the age — they were warriors, not scientists, and so murderous that a healthy dose...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 22, 2009 | Lifeline
At my son’s eighth grade Seudas Preida (lit. “departure meal,” or graduation dinner), each graduate was asked to say a brief thought. My wife gets the credit for finding a very apt thought on this week’s reading. The Torah tells us that the...
