- Our RootsRebbetzin Chave Hecht
- Our LegacyRabbi Jacob J. Hecht
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A Month to PrepareThroughout the month of Elul, the Jewish people has a collective task: to prepare itself to be
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Daily Thought
Within every love, there is fear: The fear of separation from that which you love.
A child fears separation from her parents, a lover from his beloved, the body fears separation from the soul, and the soul from its Source Above.
So what do you love? Look at your worries and you will know. If you seethe in worry over your debts and financial future, then it is the material world you love—because you believe in the material world and you see it as the source of all good.
If you sit and fret over the comments of others and the glances they throw at you, then it is social acceptance that you love, that you have made into your god.
Cleave to...
Weekly Magazine
While there isn’t a synagogue at the North Pole (yet!), there has been, and there still is, a Jewish presence not far from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
By Yehuda Altein
Learn the answer to this simple-seeming question in the light of history, Jewish law, and kabbalah.
By Yehuda Shurpin
The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.
By Tzvi Freeman
When must mistakes be corrected? How should one proceed when an error is discovered in the Torah scroll?
By Yehuda Shurpin
Jewish History
Av 24, 5786
Jewish History
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Hasmonean Holiday
The Hasmoneans reinstated the rule of Jewish civil law, replacing Hellenist secu...





