There is a command in Torah that appears again and again: זכור — remember. We remember Shabbat.
We remember Sinai.
We remember Amalek. And in our generation, we remember the Holocaust. But remembrance in Judaism is never passive. It is not history for the sake of memory—it is memory that demands transformation. But a question arises as we remember tragedy: Where was God?
 Why did He allow this? Even in the Tanach, we hear cries of “למה”—why? From Book of Lamentations to the P

For those of you that have celebrated Passover before, you know that there more to do than just prepare a special dinner. The week leading up to Passover is tedious and involves meticulous cleaning and scrubbing and searching to make sure that all chametz is removed from the home. To say the least, there is a lot of preparation that goes into readying our homes for Passover. What’s more important than cleaning and preparing out homes though? Cleaning and preparing our heart

We are just over halfway through the Yamim Noraim, Days of Awe, and just days away from Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement. According to tradition, this is the day Hashem seals the Books of Life and Death for the coming year. On Yom Kippur, we devote ourselves to communal repentance for sins committed over the course of the previous year. It is the most solemn day in the Jewish year; the day we are instructed to separate ourselves as much as possible from the physical demands o

In a week's time we'll celebrate Tu b'shevat, or the birthday of the trees in Israel. In ancient Israel, this time was when the sap...