Verbalizing erroneous ways helps concretize the painful realities that we would rather not consider.
The obligation to give charity is based on both our need to take care of each other and a recognition that we are just the custodians of money.
People who can forgive those who have wronged them demonstrate a noble and humble soul. In doing so, they receive the appropriate treatment from God.
While people should in fact do teshuva for all their sins, they should not be paralyzed by the enormity of the work that needs to be done.
Is this the end of the State of Israel – and by extension, the Jewish people – as we know it? Can we survive a constitutional crisis? The coalition has so many sins, it's hard to know where to start.
Yom Kippur is the single greatest opportunity we have to rekindle the flame within us, to rededicate ourselves to the holy mission each and every one of us shares.
What happens online quickly influences what happens in real-time. Our world is angrier and ruder, in part because of the way we speak to one another on the net.
So many religious politicians have behaved so irreligiously for so long that it often seems easier to believe that the more religiously Jewish you are – the less politically ethical you are.
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