Improve Your Odds
Use this Shabbat, known as Shabbat Shuva, to contemplate how to repent for prior transgressions and how to improve going forward. The famous Talmudic statement; "In a place where…
Seek Opportunities to Improve Character
One of the most valuable life endeavors is to devote time to character building and improvement.
Make the Effort to Improve, and be Sure to Sustain that Improvement
Think seriously about your Jewish New Year’s resolutions and how you will be able to make them really happen.
Make the Effort to Improve and Sustain that Improvement
Any preparations you can make for Yom Kippur will enhance your experience.
Seek Opportunities to Improve Character
One of the most valuable endeavors is to devote time to character building and improvement.
Make the Effort to Improve and Sustain that Improvement
Think seriously about your Jewish New Year’s resolutions and how you will be able to make them really happen.
Improve Your Odds
Engaging in repentance, prayer and charity improves our chances of being blessed with a favorable judgment for this coming New Year. In the fifth chapter of Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the…
Acharei Mot,Weekly Message,Kedoshim
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5770-2010
"Loving Thy Neighbor" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In parashat Kedoshim, the second of this week's double parashiot -- Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, we read the famous, indeed, revolutionary…
Vayeira 5773-2012
“Seeking Advice From a Good Friend” by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald As this week's parasha, parashat Vayeira, opens, G-d appears to Abraham in the Plains of Mamre. The Bible, in Genesis…
Naso 5779-2019
"Traditional Judaism: Fundamentalist or Ascetic" (Revised and updated from Naso 5760-2000) by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald In this week’s parasha, parashat Naso, we encounter the…