Why We Eat Sufganiyot On Chanukah
Kislev, time of darkness, month of light. We celebrate the flames of Chanukah and the warmth of Pnimius HaTorah, the secrets, the soul. As the Ten Commandments were given in the third month from Nissan, so was the Alter Rebbe freed from prison in the third month from Tishrei, thereby initiating a new epoch in […]
A Teaching of the Rebbe Rashab
In commemoration of the birthday of the Rebbe Rashab, 20 Cheshvan, 5778. Why would G-d create the universe? It doesn’t make sense. A philosopher knows it doesn’t make sense. G-d is, of course, the perfect, necessary being. He needs nothing; He is utterly complete in a fashion quite beyond human reckoning. Even the words “complete” […]
20 Things I Didn’t Learn In Jewish Day School
A bit of anthropological metaphysics.
Stuck Inside of Elul with the Tishrei Blues Again
The Bar Mitzvah Lesson: A Tragedy