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Oct 4, 2023, 5:16 PM

Simchat Torah will be celebrated by Jews around the world this upcoming week. On that day, we complete and begin anew the annual Torah reading cycle. This joyous milestone is celebrated primarily by singing and dancing while the Torah...

Dec 18, 2022, 4:54 PM

Close Your Eyes To See – On Chanukah we learn believing is seeing.

The primary battle between the Greeks and the Jews during Chanukah was a philosophical one. The main Greek philosophical formulation is "seeing is believing." What exists in the physical world is the only reality. They wholesale denied a spiritual...

Dec 11, 2022, 6:03 PM

What is family?

The sale of Yosef to slavery by his brothers, despite all the different explanations proffered, is extremely hard to understand. It contradicts our very fundamental understanding of family as a place of trust and security. It begs the question,...

Oct 7, 2022, 5:04 PM

‘For’: Grieving for my people in Iran

A woman in Istanbul holds up a drawing of Iranian Mahsa Amini during a protest against her death, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022 (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

For my grandfather, who spent his life longing to return; For all the tears and the mother’s cries

Apr 20, 2022, 9:26 PM

Passover, The Jewish People, And Our Chosenness

Passover is the formation and creation of the Jewish people. In effect, we celebrate our birth as a nation. I had a very interesting encounter recently that gave a whole new meaning to my Passover. I was dead asleep on...

Mar 20, 2022, 11:01 PM

Rav Chaim’s Passing

I went today to Rav Chaim's funeral. I was amongst over 750,000 people there. My left leg has been hurting me, but I was determined to go. I walked miles to get to the funeral. At a certain point,...

Sep 18, 2021, 12:28 AM

New Year’s Resolution and the Human Condition

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to personally work on this upcoming year; I have plenty of personal work to do but nothing has really moved me. Then I ended up stumbling upon some family videos, some...

Sep 18, 2021, 12:25 AM

New Year’s Resolution and the Human Condition

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I wanted to personally work on this upcoming year; I have plenty of personal work but nothing really moved me. But I ended up stumbling upon some family videos, some dating 10-20 years...

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Menachem Zaman resides in Jerusalem, Israel with his wife and two kids.