by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Mar 5, 2020 | Lifeline
Celebrating Purim, the rabbis tell us, entails four things: hearing the reading of the Megillah (the Scroll of Esther), having a festive meal, giving gifts to the poor, and sending food packages to friends. Those are the four commandments of the day. The first two...
by Mordechai Dixler | Feb 27, 2020 | Lifeline
The new Jewish month of Adar began yesterday, ushering in the joyous holidays of Purim and Passover. In this spirit the Sages of the Talmud have said “When Adar arrives, we increase in happiness.” We don’t think of happiness, true happiness, as...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Feb 14, 2020 | Lifeline
In this week’s reading, Moshe and the Jewish nation gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. Judaism teaches us that along with the Written Torah printed in every Bible, God also taught Moshe the Oral Law, giving much more detail about the...
by Mordechai Dixler | Feb 6, 2020 | Lifeline
“I sing to G-d, for He is exalted…” (Exodus 15:1) After Moshe (Moses) and the Jewish People saw the great miracle of the splitting of the sea, their salvation from the oncoming chariots of Pharaoh and the Egyptian army, and the total destruction of...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 31, 2020 | Lifeline
Through the ten plagues and the Exodus, G-d demonstrated that He and He alone is the complete authority, the King of kings. If it is a privilege to serve in the cabinet of a world leader, then how much greater is it to be a servant to the Al-mighty? Pondering this...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 23, 2020 | Lifeline
What do you hope to be doing when you’re eighty years old? In last week’s Torah reading, the story of the enslavement of the Jewish people in Egypt and their ultimate redemption began. The key figures in this story are Moshe and Aharon (Moses and Aaron),...
