What is emotion; a feeling? What then is a feeling? These terms are difficult to fully comprehend and define. For thousands of years people have been attempting to understand this phenomenon and will most likely debate it for a thousand more.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Shlach – titled “Welcome to Hotel Canaan”.
When you bring together a technology futurist, a reform Rabbi turned Orthodox and a Chabad House director you get some fascinating answers. Here is a taste of some questions that were posed by the audience.
If someone were to tell you that tens of thousands of grown adults had taken to the streets, weeping bitterly over their sad state of “Beef deprivation,” you would likely treat it like a joke. You might check your (spiffy electronic) calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Behaalotcha – titled “Try Again”.
Should we all abstain from physical pleasures in order to become more “Holy” before the Almighty? This week’s Parsha, Nasso, presents two somewhat peculiar laws back to back: The law of the Sotah – the wife suspected by her husband of committing adultery and the law of the Nazir – one who takes a vow of abstinence.
In the 1950s, when I was a young man, I befriended Rabbi Moses Rosen, who was the chief rabbi of Romania. Whenever he came to New York, he prayed in my shul, which was the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and when we discovered that we both spoke French, it brought us together. We became good friends, our wives became friends, and it was a great friendship for friendship’s sake, as the saying goes.
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released an instructional guide – in both English and Hebrew – which contains Halachos and Minhagim pertaining to the Yom Tov of Shavuos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming holiday.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on the holiday of Shavuot.
Did you ever see a Jew run in to a bank and head straight to the front of the line saying: “Excuse me; you’ll all have to wait while I take care of my business? You see I’m Jewish, you know that ‘Chosen’ thing.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Bamidbar.
Rabbi Shimon Raichik, Rosh Kolel Erev Chabad in Los Angeles, dedicated a 45-minute class to dealing with the Halachik implications of the Doheny Meat scandal.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Behar – Bechukosai.
Worry, Fear, and Anxiety, are ailments we could all do without. Yet most of us wrestle with them daily on some level. One definition for worry is “to torment oneself with disturbing thoughts.”
One of the more sobering realities of life is that it isn’t always fair. No matter how much we try to right the wrongs in the world, life still seems unfair for someone somewhere. It may be unfortunate, but that’s just the way things are and complaining about it doesn’t do any good.
“It’s never too late. There’s always a second chance.” This, according to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1880-1950), is the message of Pesach Sheini, the biblically ordained “second Passover” for those who fail to bring the Passover offering on its designated time.
Can you be too religious? Ought one to deprecate a person whose religious observance seems “Over the top?” Are the terms “Ultra-Kosher,” or “Ultra-Orthodox,” really objective?
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