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...
by Mordechai Dixler | May 22, 2009 | Lifeline
This May 29-30 will be Shavuot, the Holiday that celebrates the acceptance of the Torah. Our Shavuos section features many articles about this important, yet somewhat neglected holiday — please have a look! Speaking of which, my apologies for “getting...
by Mordechai Dixler | Feb 13, 2009 | Lifeline
This Shabbos, Jewish congregations around the world read Parshas Yisro, which describes our receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. G-d made Ten Dibros, or Declarations (commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments, but by all accounts there are more than ten Mitzvos...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 16, 2009 | Lifeline
Our Sages teach that Moshe’s father, Amram, withdrew from his wife because of Pharoah’s cruel decree that the midwives should kill any male Jewish child. His daughter Miriam protested, saying that because of him there would be no Jewish girls, either...
