YOU CAN’T SATISFY EVERYONE “Rabbi Yochanan said, ‘Great is the power of a morsel of food, for by denying it [to a guest] it can distance those who are close kin and by providing it, it can bring close those who are distant.” (Sanhedrin 103b-104a) The ramifications...

THE HUMBLE SERVANT “You shall attach five of the curtains separately and six of the curtains separately, and you shall fold the sixth curtain over the front of the Tent.” (Shmot 26:9) The Talmud (Makkot 26a) records several great leaders, amongst them King David and the prophet...

HATE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD “In the third month from the exodus of the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai. They journeyed from Refidim and arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai and encamped in...

 HOW IRONIC! “Hashem said to Moshe, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, and the water will go back upon Egypt, upon its chariots and upon its horsemen.” Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and toward morning the water went back to its power...

UNLEAVENED BREAD AND UNHESITATING HEARTS “You shall guard the matzoth because on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; and you shall observe this day for your generations, an eternal statute.” (Shmot 12:17) One of the central mitzvoth of the festival...

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! “Pharaoh sent and summoned Moshe and Aharon and said to them, “This time I have sinned; Hashem is the righteous One, and I and my people are the wicked ones. Entreat Hashem – there has been an overabundance of Godly thunder and hail;...

NON-COMMITTAL “It was in those days, Moshe grew and he went out to his brethren. And he saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man from his brethren. He tuned this way and that, and he saw that there was no...

FROM DUST TO DUST “The time approached for Israel to die, so he called for his son, for Yosef, and said to him, “Please – If I have found favour in your eyes, please place your hand under my thigh and do kindness and truth with...

TO GOD IS THE VENGEANCE During the week-long vigil that took place at the site of the Bondi Beach Chanukah Massacre, Australian actor and media personality Nathaniel Buzolic (Nate Buzz), shared a message of support with the traumatised Jewish community of Sydney. Buzolic is a religious...

BRINGING LIGHT TO THE DARKNESS “The mitzvah of kindling Chanukah lamps is very dear. A person should be very careful in its observance to publicize the miracle and thus increase our praise of God and our expression of thanks for the miracles which He wrought on...