Statistics have it that more Jews participate in a Passover Seder than light Chanukah candles. Before you delude yourself into imagining how proud HaShem and Moshe are knowing that the revolutionary event of the Exodus from Egypt lives on millennia later, consider the fact that there are a good many contemporary Jews who conduct a Seder for purely selfish reasons. […]
Rabbi Yehudah was one brilliant sage. By creating the mnemonic D’tzach, Adash, B’achav, he provided an excellent way for all to be able to recount the ten plagues (D’tzach is comprised of three letters, representing three words: dam – blood, tzfardaya – frogs, kinim – lice. The same hold true for Adash and B’achav). Far be it for me to […]
This past Thursday, while presenting before a group of seniors at the JCC, I found myself quoting Joseph N. Welch who had the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the infamous Senator Joe McCarthy. “Have you no sense of decency, Sir?” asked Mr. Welch. That very same question, I explained, could have been put to Jacob’s ten sons who nonchalantly […]
