by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 26, 2023 | Bereishit, Tishrei
Tony LaRussa, the famous retired manager of the St Louis Cardinals, wrote a book called One Last Strike. In this book, LaRussa details the story of the Cardinals’ amazing and unlikely run to the World Series in 2011, and offers lessons on leadership based on his...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 21, 2023 | God, Ha'azinu
Almost the entirety of this week’s Torah portion is a poem that Moses spoke to the nation of Israel in the final days of his life. Opening with the words, “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth” (Deut. 32:1), Moses lays out...
by Rabbi Yaakov Wolff | f 21, 2023 | Yom Kippur
Rabbi Aharon Soloveichik, a respected scholar, teacher, and community leader in both Chicago and New York, faced a significant challenge towards the end of his life. He suffered a debilitating stroke that made walking nearly impossible. Determined to regain his...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 21, 2023 | Acharei Mot, Yom Kippur
Hank Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar in American baseball and in American sports in general. Now, as you might imagine, when he first came up to the Big Leagues to play for the Detroit Tigers in the early 1930s, antisemitism was a fact of life. But in 1934,...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 19, 2023 | Yom Kippur
Michael Levy was born blind. At his mother’s funeral, Michael told the following story: Since he was not able to see, Michael’s mother would walk him to school every morning, and, at the end of the day, she would wait for him right outside the school building to walk...
