The Secret is a 2006 self-help book…based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the belief of the pseudoscientific law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person’s life directly.

TORAH IS ENDLESS, but I’m not. I have been writing Perceptions for exactly 30 years now, b”H, and I have always tried to avoid repeating previous divrei Torah.

The steps Ya’akov Avinu took to prepare for his final confrontation with Eisav, Chazal tell us, teach us about how to prepare for any confrontation we might have as nation.

The ladder spanned Heaven and Earth, and angels went up and down it. According to the Midrash, the dream foretold of four future exiles that the descendants of Ya’akov would have to endure, Babylonia, Median, Greek, and Roman.

WE ARE NOW in the month of Kislev, Chanukah territory. It was the last Jewish holiday to be established, and the only one to occur after the time of prophecy. This is why, unlike Purim, Chanukah was not immediately established as a holiday, as the Gemora explains: