BS”D One of the most chassidishe vortes I’ve ever heard came from a Jew who doesn’t keep Shabbos… Chazal tell us: משנה מקום, משנה מזל If you change your place, you change your mazel. (Rosh HaShana 16b) This person translated it as follows: משנה, מקום משנה מזל If you change [yourself], then HaMakom [another Name…
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BS”D Towards the end of parshas Noach, Chazal give us some important insight into the nature and role of a Jewish woman. A woman, unlike a man, enters this world with two missions- a personal one, and a second, higher one that she later acquires and shares with her husband. Her success in life is…
BS”D The idea of being mekabel yissurim b’ahava, accepting suffering with love, is a fundamental concept in Judaism and something that we are exposed to all the time. We may see or hear about people who are living lives of extraordinary pain and suffering, yet their simchas hachayim and connection to HaShem do not seem…
