This week we read of possibly the most important occurrence in history of man: the ‘Akaida (tying up) of Yitzchak’. It is the founding stone of Judaism; but it is very hard to understand why • Full Article

Does transferring an animal’s holiness to another animal really incur lashes according to Jewish law? Find out the intense Talmudic debate around this wild biblical prohibition • Watch

BEGIN WITH A GRIN What does a frugal person bring to his guests? A watermelon. Why a watermelon? Because it’s something to eat, something to drink, and a snack too! (Israelis crack open watermelon, sunflower and pumpkin seeds with their teeth as a snack.) • Full Article

Each time I push away a forbidden desire, it becomes more intense, what can I do? Rabbi Shloma Majeski Answers For the Stump the Rabbi • Watch

In connection to the situation in Eretz Yisrael, we present Halachic Q&As on saying Tehillim by Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din • Full Article

Enjoy a beautiful ma’amar of the Rebbe on the topic in a new Chassidus Unification of the 10 Sefirot class by Rabbi Yitzchock Minkowicz on a ma’amar based on the possuk ויטע אשל  from Shabbos Vayera 5747 • Watch

Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Landau, Chief Rabbi of Bnei Brak provides Halachic guidance on Shabbos during wartime • Full Article

The Birth of Ishmael and Isaac Tracing the Roots of Today’s Global Conflict Living with the times – with the Torah portion read this week – has never seemed more appropriate. • Full Article

As this is being written, Am Yisrael is fighting for its existence and, b’ezras Hashem,by the time you read this, an
absolute victory will have been won over our enemies. BEGIN WITH A GRIN Rina: Moshe, tell me, what are you doing? Moshe: Nothing… Rina (frustrated): But that’s what you did yesterday… Moshe: So, what do you want? I’m not finished yet! • Full Article