We’re All Broken Vessels – The 17th of Tammuz

Based on a lecture By Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller which can be found here. The first major tragedy in history was when Adam ate the fruit and internalized confusion. Prior to that sin, confusion was external, but after the sin the confusion was internalized. Man went from an objective reality of true and false to an [...]

Ten for the Tenth of Teves

Ten points about the Tenth of Teves from an article by Rabbi Berel Wein. 1) The Tenth of Tevet marks the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylonia, and the beginning of the battle that ultimately destroyed Jerusalem. 2) The date of the Tenth of Tevet is recorded for us [...]

Learning from Leiby’s Murder

Reprinted with permission from Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller’s Weekly Letter Dear friends, Many of you have heard of the cruel and brutal murder last week of Leiby Kletzky, a nine-year-old who was on his way home from his day camp in Brooklyn, alone for the first time, after pleading with his parents as only a nine-year-old [...]

Tenth of Teves Reading and Listening

Rebbetzin Heller on Lost in Translation: The Month of Tevet What’s the difference between the Septuagint (the 70-man translation) and ArtScroll? Ptolemy wanted to Hellenize the Torah. He wanted it in his library along with the other classics of his time. To him it was inconceivable that a God-given document and one written by man [...]

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