Posts in Divrei Torah

This Thursday evening, I found myself in a difficult situation. The trash needed to be brought down, but I had already changed into my pajama[…]

Edward Reichman died in Jerusalem after a long illness at the age of 80 years old. He was a real estate tycoon, and when he[…]

Putting a menu together in the restaurant industry is a very thought out and meticulous process.  It begins with the owner, likely in consultation with[…]

Help, I’ve been abducted by pirates in the Nigeria and the only way to save me is to wire me thousands of dollars and your[…]

In 2011, a team of three social psychologists published a remarkable discovery: listening to the Beatles song “When I’m Sixty-Four” can make a person younger. […]

We tend to label draft dodgers as unpatriotic, but the draft dodging group of this week’s parsha are heroes.  Moshe Rabenu and his entire extended[…]

A colleague of mine recently shared an image in our whatsapp group: a chart depicting the speed in which people speak.  The image demonstrated that[…]

At the beginning of our parsha, Pharoah gathers all the magician sand wise men of Egypt in search of an interpretation of his dreams.  But[…]

I hate going to the optometrist.  I first began wearing glasses when I was five years old, and every year or so in that office[…]

One of the often overlooked components of giving first-rate Chanukah gifts is how we choose to wrap them.  That being said, gift wrapping has boomed[…]