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” […]
A bit of anthropological metaphysics.
The Bar Mitzvah Lesson: A Tragedy
Why is a Nazi evil?
Why They Lie To You In BT Yeshiva
La Ba’Omer is the best. I will explain this holiday to you. But it is a long story. In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Why he would do this is mysterious, and the matter cannot be easily adjudicated in a humble space like this. The best way to put it is that […]
A Framework For Torah Politics
What is required then, for Torah to “teach” politics, is a framework for synthesis.