“Action is the main thing,” the Rebbe always emphasizes. Perhaps, the most important aspect of living in Moshiach times, is to “live with Moshiach,” i.e., upping our avoda to a redeemed and Moshiach’dike quality.
Terms like “toxic masculinity” are so damaging because they ascribe qualities to masculinity that have nothing to do with it. A bully, for example, is not expressing masculinity at all. Someone who picks on someone weaker feels a lack of pride and self-worth, and seeks to elevate himself by putting others down. So the bully is actually behaving in a needy, effeminate way.
In connection with Parshas Vayikra – the parsha which begins little children’s Cheider experience, we present a collection of halachic articles from Halacha2Go.com on the topic of Chinuch. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din
?Education and discipline are two totally different objectives
To the Jewish nation, education has forever been an inseparable part of the culture and faith, beginning with Avraham, the first Jew, who was commended by G-d for educating his children to follow in his ways.
I write this to you in the middle of the Shiva of one of my dearest friends, Harav Chaim Shneur Zalman A”H ben yiblt”a Harav Shalom Shimon Yaakov sheyichye Baras. In addition to being my personal friend since kindergarten, he served as the main Mashpia in our Yeshiva in Cincinnati for the last 12 years; A position he filled with great love, dedication, and self-sacrifice.
Views all humanity as one whole, yet strongly asserted the belief in the Jewish people as the Chosen People.
It has always been the custom in Kehillos Yisroel, that when the time comes for a young boy to learn with other children, we take him to “Cheder,” and arrange a special “Seder Hachnosa L’Cheder” as is brought down in Rishonim
Moshe Levy returns home after an exhausting day at work. He parks his car in front of his house, turns off the lights and a moment before he turns off the engine, and takes out the keys, he hears a thundering noise. His car window shatters into pieces and a basketball hits him in the head
It was an old custom in Jewish communities to perform a “Purim shpiel” on Purim. A “Purim Rav” was appointed, along with judges, guards, leaders and enemies of Israel at that time. In the performance, they would abolish decrees and add an abundance of good for the Jews.
March 15, 2019