By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz The most wonderful thing happened to me this morning. My wife got sick. I don’t mean to say that it is wonderful that my wife got sick. What I mean is that I got a chance...
The Sacred Duty of Caring for the Ill
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The Unexpected Role of Ancestry in Jewish Monarchy
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz In Psalm 39, David writes that he generally guards his mouth and refrains from questioning God, no matter what troubles befall him. But at some point, staying silent becomes too...
Why Study Judges?
By Rabbi Elie Mischel What is the point of studying the Book of Judges? Yes, I know this sounds heretical. But it’s a fair question! We live in a modern world that appears, at first glance, to have...
Freedom Through Submission: The Paradox of Worshipping God
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz My anti-religious friend was giving me a hard time again. “You keep saying that you are on a spiritual journey towards God,” he said. “But all I see are roadblocks. Don’t...
Unearthing Shevat: The Month of Trees
By Chaim Barzel This verse from Zechariah is the very first verse in the Hebrew Bible that mentions the month of Shevat. But it’s only the second that mentions “the eleventh month.” Do you know...
The Heart of the Matter: Free Will and the Story of Pharaoh
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz People are complicated but God has us figured out, as the prophet Jeremiah said: Most devious is the heart; It is perverse—who can fathom it? I Hashem probe the heart,...
The Dilemma of Faith
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz When I sit down at my Shabbat dinner table and I am blessed to have my four children around me, something strange happens. I look at them but I don’t see them. I look at my...
What does God’s name actually mean?
God spoke to Moses, and He said to him: I am the Lord (YHVH). I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but with My name “the Lord,” (YHVH) I did not make myself...
Know Who is Really Speaking to You
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz When I moved to Israel I was thirty years old. I was no spring chicken, but I really wanted to serve in the IDF. The only option was a four-month program called “Shlav bet”...
Pray to God… With Your Body
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz “Abba (Dad), what does it mean that we were created in God’s image? Does God look like me? Is he this tall and does he have brown hair?” Studying Torah with my son is the...
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