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A Lesson For the Children – A group of frogs left their swamp and went for a tour of the surroundings. Suddenly, two of them fell into a deep pit. All...

Eleven years ago, a sweet, spoiled and stereotypical silver spooned 12th grade Beverly Hills student of mine excitedly approached me with a new set of keys. “Rav” he said, “today’s my...

Holy and Secular – “You wanted to hear how the country came to an end,” the grandfather said to his grandson. “It is a very sad story, but it is important...

A king from the Far East wanted to find an advisor who was honest and faithful. In order to pick a man who could be trusted with such an honored and...

Upon return from a fundraising trip from America for his Yeshiva, Chachmei Lublin, Rav Meir Schapiro gathered around his students who were eager to comprehend the Jewish mindset of the nyer...

Do you know who made the world’s biggest flag ever? Do you care? Well, I’ll tell you, in any case. It was an Israeli flag, and it was completed just recently,...

(In memory of Rabbi Neria, on the twelfth anniversary of his death.) We were in the eleventh grade, students at Yeshivat Kfar Haroeh, headed by Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neria. During the...

There was once a very great miser. He had amassed great wealth in his life. But he did not allow himself to “waste” the money, he was careful not to give...

Holy and Secular – Everybody can imagine for himself how frightened he would be before a meeting with a brother who was a gangland leader, and who also had a serious grudge...

A Lesson For the Children – This is a story that took place about two hundred years ago in Poland. “Mushika” made a living from milking cows and processing the milk...