by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 8, 2022 | Lifeline
You spot that fresh, warm chocolate cake, just pulled from the oven, calling out to you. The sweet, rich cocoa aroma invites you to help yourself to a healthy sized piece and savor the embrace of the fudge on your palate. The experience will overwhelm your emotions...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 23, 2022 | Lifeline
Before entering the land of Israel, the Jewish people asked to send in spies to understand the challenges they would face as they conquer the promised land. Moses sent twelve spies, all respected representatives of each of the twelve tribes. Among them were the...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 16, 2022 | Lifeline
G-d blessed the Jewish people with the miraculous Manna to collect each morning as they traveled and camped in the desert. Most, of course, were grateful for this daily sustenance, literally a gift from Heaven, but many of them complained. “If only we had meat!...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jun 9, 2022 | Lifeline
One day Jack noticed his friend Bob, happily jumping up and down on a manhole cover, shouting, “Twenty-three! Twenty-three!” Bewildered by his friend’s behavior, he asked him, “Why, Bob, are you so happy to be jumping on a manhole cover?”...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Jun 2, 2022 | Lifeline
Saturday night begins the holiday of Shavuos, the day when we received the Torah at Mt. Sinai. There is a common custom, observed in many Jewish communities, to spend all of Shavuos night awake, studying Torah, preparing to receive it in the morning. This custom...
by Mordechai Dixler | May 27, 2022 | Lifeline
The majority of this week’s reading is devoted to G-d’s warning of severe curses that will come upon the Jewish nation, if it acts with disregard for the laws of the Torah. As these curses come from a loving G-d, they stem from a place of love, and are a...
