Unconditional love
“Isaac loved Esav because he ate his game; but Rebecca loved Jacob.” (Genesis 25:28) The actual Hebrew of this verse reads that Rebecca “loves” Jacob, in the present tense. According to Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz, we can understand this verse according to a teaching of our sages in Chapters of the Fathers (5:16). “Any love […]
Understanding the Hebrew months: KISLEV
The commandment to proclaim the New Moon was the first commandment given to the entire Jewish nation. In Exodus 12, God says: This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months – it shall be the first of the months of the year for you” When Israel was enslaved in Egypt, they were […]
The sigh
The town shoemaker would often be in a quandry about when to pray in the morning. Many of his customers were poor men who only owned one pair of shoes. He would work on repairing them all through the night in order to deliver them before their owners had to go to work in the […]