Rabbi Blogs

Lashon Haron, evil speech, is often compared to a traveling salesperson selling tales. While we may think about the internal ramifications of evil speech—how gossip damages the souls of the person speaking and the person listening, we may not think…

While the Jewish people make up 0.2% of the global population, within that percentage is a diverse, multiheritage, varied group. The jokes about Jewish disagreements abound: Two Jews, three opinions. Another famous one: There is one Jew on an island…

Love your fellow as yourself. Rabbi Akiva teaches that this is the greatest principle in the Torah. It is one thing to preach these words; it is another thing to live them. We often ask, “Why are our friends not…