“… while Karim Khan and his men sat down to drink, the city of Basra was in despair.” Basra is the second largest city in Iraq (next to Baghdad). Its Jewish settlement dates back over a thousand years. Nearly two hundred years ago, before the great exodus of Jews from […]
Monthly Archives: March 2022
Look what the wind blew in… In the spirit of Rosh Chodesh, the new Jewish month of Adar Sheni (the second Adar of this leap year), I planned to have a farbrengen** instead of my daily “GPS for the Soul” class. Because Tsfat was having a crazy storm, with thunder, […]
The Birthday Boy: A Personal Story from Rabbi Mordechai “Big ...
“My intention was to jump…” The first Rebbe of Chabad taught that if the mind is not filled with holiness, it will be filled with unholiness. His great grandson commented that the same thing is true with happiness. Either you are happy with Torah or your “animal” […]