Selichos. Some years one comes prepared, other times is just jumps on us regardless of how much we have been preparing.  After the חטא העגל Moshe Rabbeinu had to go back on הר סיני for forty days to secure forgiveness for the Yidden.  It worked… But that method of achieving forgiveness was unsustainable in the long run, because was it…

BH As we travel home for בין הזמנים, I wanted to share this correspondence with you to give some perspective on how to properly utilise the extra time we have. *** In answer to your question regarding reading _____ and your quest for a proper understanding of history… Your question is an interesting one, and not easy to answer in…

My grandmother, Rebbitzen Rivka Zajac (affectionately known by her students as “Morah Rivka”), was six years old, when she and her family escaped communist Russia, on one of the famous “Polish trains”, emigrating to the United States of America. As a young girl in New York, (young enough be on her father’s side of the Mechitza), she merited to grow…