“I’m sorry the I.V. hasn’t helped; your son will need a procedure to drain the infection.” It was the second day that my three-year-old was in hospital because of an infection; the antibiotics hadn’t helped, and he now lay in his bed, his tiny arm all bandaged up. “As he will be having a “procedure” tomorrow, he cannot eat from…

“When the Alter Rebbe lived in Liozna [known as the period before “Peterburg”], anyone who would walk in to the Rebbe’s room even for a short while, would leave as a Tzadik with ‘Ahavas Hashem and Yiras Hashem… This changed however, once the Rebbe moved to Liadi [known as the period ‘after Peterburg’] it was then that from the Alter…

Imagine if you never learned the Torah as a story. Imagine if you never learned “בראשית ברא אלוקים את השמים ואת הארץ“ as “In the beginning Hashem created the heavens and the earth”, rather you only learned “Hashem created the world for two entities – so that Yidden should keep the Torah”, or “He created a land which is holier than all the others”… or “He…