by Mordechai Dixler | Oct 11, 2013 | Lifeline
There are times, sometimes just moments, when we feel inspired and close to the Al-mighty. Maybe we’re in the presence of a special person, in the final moments of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, or we witnessed the birth of a new baby. Those spiritual...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Oct 4, 2013 | Lifeline
What is the lesson of the Great Flood? We read this week that the world became so corrupt and evil that the only way forward was to start over. G-d sent the flood because “the earth had corrupted itself before G-d, and the earth was filled with violence.”...
by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 12, 2013 | Lifeline
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is devoted to Teshuva, the process of returning to G-d. A special and repeated part of the Yom Kippur liturgy is the recitation of the Viduy prayer, admitting to and delineating our faults. “Ashamnu, we were guilty, Bagadnu, we...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 30, 2013 | Lifeline
This week, we read about a Commandment to bring the entire nation of Israel together to hear the Torah. “Gather the nation together, the men, the women, the children, and the stranger who is within your gates…” [31:12] Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaryah asks,...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 23, 2013 | Lifeline
The congregation of Rabbi Aharon Karliner zt”l arrived at the haunting chant which begins the Rosh Hashanah morning service. The notes soared over the still congregants, the Rabbi in deep meditation. Then, they reached the crescendo with the first word of the...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 16, 2013 | Lifeline
One of the Commandments that Moshe Rabbeinu addressed again in Deuteronomy is that of returning lost property. In this week’s reading, the verse reads: “You shall not see the ox of your brother, or his sheep or goat, having wandered off, and ignore them;...
