“WHAT DOES THIS service mean to you?” the Evil Son asks. Evil? After all, he IS at the Seder Table and participating. Evil? He’s probably barely 15 or 16 years of age, and he’s already evil? Even a Ben Sorrer U’Moreh—Rebellious Son—is killed only because of what he WILL become, not because…

IT IS NEVER a question of IF, but of IN WHAT. Faith is an integral part of ANYONE’S life, even an atheist. There are so many unknowns in life, and if you don’t have faith in something or someone, then you won’t get out of bed in the morning. It’s an unshakable part of being human.

Parashas Shemos, Issue #930 – By Pinchas Winston
Get ready, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase, and a war befall us, and they join our enemies and wage war against us and depart from the land.” (Shemos 1:10)

 IT ALL STARTED when I decided to make sure my passports were up-to-date. I had stopped traveling outside of Eretz Yisroel for a couple of years already, and hadn’t needed them for a while. But as family gets older, you never know when you might have to make a quick trip, and…

IT IS REALLY quite amazing how many situations in life become incredibly disastrous, only to have a happy ending after all is said-and-done. It doesn’t mean that people do not suffer along the way to the “happy ending,” but better they suffer for a positive outcome, than for a negative one.