Category: Culture

  • The Ultimate Defeat of Evil

    פרשת כי תישה / י”ד באדר א’ תשפ”ב

    The ultimate defeat of evil is not just to survive but to survive in a way that shows they failed to destroy your humanity. As long as you follow God’s commandments evil is defeated. As long as a Jew celebrates being Jewish then the Nazis have been defeated again.

  • Remember the Second Fiddle

    פרשת תצוה / י’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב

    This is the only Parsha from the beginning of Exodus until the end of the Torah, in which Moshe’s name is not mentioned. There are two reasons for this. Today we explore those reasons.

  • Be The Fire in the Menorah

    פרשת תרומה / ג’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב

    When Moses is shown the prototype of the Menorah for the Tabernacle, he notices that it is engulfed in flame. This is to teach us to approach being Jewish with a lust, not to be robots.

  • The Importance of Shabbat

    פרשת יתרו / י”ח בשבט תשפ”ב

    The importance of the Sabbath to the Jewish people cannot be underestimated. It has been said that rather than the Jews kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept the Jews. When we look at the 4th Commandment we understand why.

  • What Really Happened That Night

    ה’ בשבט תשפ”ב

    The Plague of the Death of the 1st born revealed that Egyptian society was rotting from within.

  • What Was Wrong with the Tower of Babel

    כ”ט בתשרי תשפ”ב / October 5, 2021

    Why was the generation of the Tower of Babel punished? What was the real problem from God’s point of view.

  • Morality From the Bottom Up

    ז’ בתשרי תשפ”ב / September 13, 2021

    The Torah warns that if our society is immoral then the leaders will be immoral. An immoral leader is symptom of a bad society.

  • Some Random Thoughts

    I know that I haven’t blogged in a while.

  • Thinking about Embryonic Stem Cells

    The hardest questions that we have today concern the junction of science and morality.

  • The Mosque at Ground Zero

    In my last blog I mentioned the justification of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.