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...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 15, 2008 | Lifeline
During this month, on the seventeenth day of Tammuz, we begin the period of mourning for the destruction of the Temples and the Jewish exile. In the Ashkenazic world, there are no weddings until after Tisha B’Av and enjoyable occasions and trips are minimized. The...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 13, 2008 | Lifeline, What's happening
“And the man, Moshe, was extremely humble, more than any man on the face of the earth.” [12:3] Some people think that to be humble means to think nothing of yourself. But obviously, Moshe could not be quite so self-effacing. He was able to face the entire...
