Category Archives: Students

This past Sunday we had a pre-Shevous learning program. It was designed to allow fathers, brother and other relatives the opportunity to learn together with their relative student. Boruch Hashem it was a resounding success with a Kol Ha’Torah that permeated throughout the Bais HaMedrash. This Kol Hatorah brought back memories of a time thatContinue reading “The power of the Bais HaMedrash”

This year coincides with the seventh year in a cycle that started when Bnei Yisreol inhabited Eretz Yisroel after leaving Egypt. It is vernacularly know as the Shmittah year. This weeks Parsha talks about the mitzvah of Shmittah (allowing the land to lie fallow) and it is distinctively introduced with the clause that it wasContinue reading “Getting away with it”

In this week’s Torah portion, Parshas Emor the Jewish people are commanded to “count the Omer” that is to count from the second day of Pesach the day that the Omer offering was brought in the Bais HaMikdash, forty-nine days leading up to the holiday of Shavuos. This the Torah tells us is to emulateContinue reading “Make each day count!”

“Nature versus nurture” is a  term used in psychology related to whether heredity or the environment most impacts human psychological development (behavior, habits, intelligence, personality, aggressive tendencies, and so on). It’s obvious that you share your parent’s’ DNA in the physical sense — you might have black hair like your father and blue eyes likeContinue reading “Free will”

It is easy to look at a finished product and see how all the hard work was worth it. It is much more difficult to realize the benefits of one’s unrelenting effort in the middle of a process and take pride in the unfinished work. However, this week I decided to do just that. YouContinue reading “Reflecting on the Principal Project”

Commemorating Yom Hashoah this year among the number of different messages, two stood out for me as they were particularly germane to the current situation the Jewish people find themselves. Even though Yom Hasoah has been a fixture in our calendar for the last 70 years these messages had not been as relevant then asContinue reading “Yom Hashoah 5775/2015”