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A Torah’s Outlook on Livelihood
“Six days of the week you shall labor.” The Torah commands us to work, to toil for the six days of the week leading up to Shabbos. Productivity and fulfillment are lauded as true Jewish principles. Yet, when we find ourselves straddling the tightrope named parnasa, we enter a world full of doubts, questions and
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On the Biblical Origins and Effectiveness of Shidduchim
Shidduchim are an age-old tradition with very real biblical sources…
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What Is the Purpose of the Oral Torah?
If one asked how many torot there are you would expect the answer to be one. However, we are taught by Chazal that Moshe Rabbeinu received both the written and the oral law, torah she’bichtav and torah she’be’al peh respectively, at Har Sinai beginning in Parashat Yitro. Often when we say “torah” our immediate thought
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Fulfillment vs Motherhood: Should Women Pursue Any Kind of Career?
Sometimes, we are tempted to enter a field because it is just the typical, easy route to go, even if the work is not meaningful to us. I looked around at my friends and family, so many talented young women who pursued jobs meaningful to them. Here are three working women who each chose a
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Is Eating Healthy a Mitzvah?
Healthy eating is trendy and encompasses much of the daily social media platforms. Our generation is dealing with the most access and abundance than all prior generations…
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What is a Mitzvah and How Does it Work?
To attach ourselves to Hashem’s ratzon is to reach incredibly deep and high. To use our limbs to actually execute that will is to become an agent of His agenda, and thereby achieve a connection with a Source that is otherwise unreachable. We cannot experience in this world the effects of that relationship, but in…
