Each morning throughout the year, during our morning prayers we say the following words, "Baruch Atah Adoshem Elokainu Melech Haolam, Pokaiach Eevrim," "Blessed are You Lord our God, King of the universe, who opens the mentally blind." Akin to a beginning of a new day, now is the time to make yourself anew during the season of Teshuvah, the time of our repentance; to dream of your potential and strive towards it; the time to imagine all of God's goodness and begin renewed, to participate in building a world of peace. Read more...

The Rock! - His deeds are perfect, Yea, all His ways are just; A faithful God, never false, True and upright is He. (Deuteronomy 32:4) Read more...

This is what justice looks like. Read more...

The intertwined questions of how we are to understand the nature of God, and how best to address God, are ones that concern Jews (and other believers) at all time, but perhaps no time quite so strongly as during the Yamim Noraim, the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the ten days of repentance that encompass them. Read more...

One day while the grandchildren of the Rhizner rebbe, Rabbi Yisrael Friedman (d. 1858) were playing marbles, a controversy erupted between the five and seven year old, as to the difference between a Tzadik ( a righteous master), a Tzaddik Hador (a Tzadik of the generation), and a Tzadik Yesod Olam (a Tzadik that is the foundation of the world). Read more...