The Creation of a Kiddush Hashem Perek daled, mishnah hei tells us about not causing a chillul Hashem. There is flip-side to this, and that is striving to create a Kiddush Hashem. The greatest form of Kiddush Hashem is amongst other Jews. I recently read a story about a Kiddush Hashem that left me in a daze. It was so astounding because it was my father who created this [...]
What does your name mean? Giving the Neshamah an Aliyah Davening at the kever is a way of honoring the neshamah of the niftar and giving it pleasure. When we daven for the welfare of the niftar’s neshamah, it encourages the niftar to try to help us, even without us asking for that help. The truth is that any davening gives the neshamah an aliyah, whether it [...]
If My Siddur Could Talk, What Would I Hear It Say? It was the night before my chasunah. I can still feel the mixture of fear and excitement that I was experiencing. When a small box was delivered to my house with a card, I tenderly opened it up, and there inside I found a beautiful leather siddur engraved with my new name. I held it. I looked [...]
A Picture with Esti Dear Esti, I was straightening up recently when I came across an overturned picture. I don’t know where it came from, but when I turned it over, I saw that it was a picture of you and me leaning in toward each other, with our heads touching and your hand around my shoulders. I spent a few seconds looking at it, remembering where and [...]
Chanukah and Tefillah: The Connection You Never Thought About Before the Yamim Noraim, I received the following email from Links Magazine: Hi! We are working on the Yamim Noraim magazine and want to do a Part II to Tefillah Questions Answered (we printed Part I two years ago).Do any of you have a question that you’d like our rabbanim to answer, or has anyone shared with you a [...]
Winning Words: The Communication Dance The legacy of Aharon Hakohen is that he was a rodef shalom (Pirkei Avos 1:12). He loved peace and would make sure to create it whenever he could. The well-known example is that he would tell one person that the other person felt bad about their machlokes and wanted to make up, and then he would go to the second person and [...]
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