Inspiration 1711 articles

For a few days, I thought that perhaps I was misremembering. But as the days after Pesach continued to flow by, it was clear. Something was different. In years past, almost...

We have a new grandson, Avrohom Simcha. The “simcha” is for happiness. The “Avrohom” is for my father— ”Abe” to those he dealt with in business; “Avremel” or “Avremele” to his...

I cannot sleep; your pearly dawn beckons. I arise and watch the clouds move across a pink and blue-gray sky. The necklace of streetlights goes out and the sunrise illuminates the...

A Lesson For the Children – Rabbi Kahane, a prominent rabbi of the Amoraim in the time of the Talmud, wanted his son Salik to study Torah. He was five years...

Miriam and Daniel Schwab have grown accustomed to the nightly 4:00 AM blaring that serves as the public summons to prayer for Muslim worshipers early each morning. (In Islam, the tradition...

Holy and Secular – “Forty years since the liberation of Jerusalem,” the sign at the entrance to the capital declares. “Forty years of occupation,” is written on a sign at an...

Crazy just got kicked up a notch. Wacky just bought a whole new wardrobe. Just when I thought the world we live in was at its maximum level of insanity, Weird...

The first time I got in trouble at school I was in kindergarten. One day, after we had successfully read “See Spot Run” and in the midst of painting a forest...

A Lesson For the Children – Anybody who did not attend the wedding of Yosef and Rachel has absolutely no idea what true happiness is. The new couple, with their friends...

I looked at my oldest grandson right before his Bar Mitzvah and almost couldn’t believe it, I was really standing in this place, in this moment. He is such a good...