by Yehudis Schamroth | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Go, and know…When the world has grown small, and yet family feels farther away than ever, here’s a moment to pause, with a sense of pride, and an awareness of destiny (Lech Lecha)GoFrom your native landFrom your father’s homeTo the Land that I will show...
by Yehudis Schamroth | Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Adapted from teachings of Rabbis Avraham Greenbaum, Pinchas Winston , and Moshe Lichtman Photo credit: Ben GoldsteinThe commandments contained in Ki Tavo are almost the last commandments in the Torah. They relate to the longed for, glorious completion of the journey...
by Yehudis Schamroth | Jul 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, the esteemed Rabbi Beryl Wein wrote a blog post entitled “IMPLOSION” (America’s spiralling downfall)Rabbi Wein , world renown and well respected Rabbi, Lawyer, Historian and Author has been increasingly concerned about the recent turn of...
by Yehudis Schamroth | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Now that we have passed the summer solstice, the days are still long but they are starting to get shorter, as we move ever closer to the end of the year and the coming New Year and Days of Awe. The Hebrew letters of the present month, Tammuz, are the initial letters...
by Yehudis Schamroth | Jun 13, 2020 | Halacha
Based on chapter Shelach, in Eretz Yisroel in the Parsha , by Rabbi Moshe Lichtman, Devorah Publishing 2006 Chazal have a tradition that the sin of the spies took place on the ninth of Av and on that night, Hashem told the people of Israel, “You wept in...