Rabbi’s Blog

Dear Friends, People are uniquely obsessed with their work. Spending more hours at the office and being “super busy” is for many a status symbol. However, complete dedication to one’s […]

Dear Friends, One of the seminal moments in life we can never forget. Most people probably remember precisely where they were standing and what they were doing when they heard […]

Dear Friends,  The widespread custom on both nights of Rosh Hashanah is to eat various kinds of foods as a symbolic good omen for the new year. Of all the […]

Dear Friends, COVID-19 has caused all sorts of shortages and surpluses in various industries, some of which make for fascinating stories. One such shortage was lab monkeys. There are certain […]

Dear Friends, In an interesting article, Alan Castel, Ph.D. professor of psychology at the University of California, writes that despite having an amazingly complex brain, we spend much of our […]

Dear Friends,  In this week’s Parsha, the Torah admonishes the judge not to show favouritism, not to corrupt justice, and not to take bribes “for bribes will blind the eyes […]