Listen There is a rule in Jewish law that someone can impose a benefit on another person without his knowledge. Because he gains, we can therefore assume his agreement. But by the same token someone cannot impose an obligation on ...
Listen In his essay “The Evolution of Childhood,” Lloyd DeMause reports: Infanticide during antiquity has usually been played down despite literally hundreds of clear references by ancient writers that it was an accepted, everyday occurrence. Children were thrown into rivers, ...
Listen For a Jew to cheat a Gentile is worse than cheating a Jew.Better a man that hides his folly than one who hides his wisdom!Wives save men from sin.A gathering of the wicked is an evil for them and ...
Listen The problem facing us today is not that there are Jews for Jesus or Jews for Reverend Moonie. The problem is that there are so many sweet, holy Yiddelehs who are Jews for Nothing. (SHLOMO CARLEBACH) If bizarre religious ...
Listen Likewise, nothing “frustrates” and “angers” God more than our self-destruction. If He didn’t care about us, He would never become “angry.” He gets “angry” only because He wants us to benefit fully from life, and we don’t let that ...
Listen There’s a cynical expression, “Those who can — do, those who can’t — teach.” The Jewish corollary to that is that someone who “can’t cut it” in the “real world” goes into Chinuch. How sad it is when people ...
