NY's Funniest Rabbi

  Everyone talks about why when Yosef finally reveals himself to his brothers he asks, "Is my father still alive?" There are many ...

While Tehillim 100 would see the most salient for Thanksgiving (as it starts with "A Song of Todah - Thanks) I'd like to look at Ps...

 Today is 7 Av, the Yahrtzeit of the Nesivos Shalom, previous Rebbe of Slonim.  His work, somehow overflowed fro his branch of Chasidus into...

I recently bought  a book as an impulse by at the cash register of the Upper West Side's Shakespeare and Co. Spine Poems, An Eclectic Co...

  If you see see a young child wearing a coat that's way to big for him you'd be wise to conclude the coat for made for someone bigg...

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  o Ten Albums That Are Meaningful to Me My brother tagged me in favorite album challenge. The rule is that you're supposed to share one...

 

Kids have so much on their minds sometimes studies get left behind If teachers try they will find things go better when they are kind.

 

S mall talk makes me feel small.

I'm in this episode and the one before it  (and the one before that).

Here I am, talking about A Tree Grows In Brooklyn! Here's a previous post where I wrote about the book/movie. And this, from this  rich ...

  “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams, A...

 I always say that the things you remember in life are the things that happen right after you had the butterflies, so you should never avoid...

 

  "He preached the gospel at all times; when necessary he used words." - St. Francis of Assisi

 Happy Birthday Jim Gaffigan, one of my favorite comedians ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HuVrePtiU

 Sick w ear infection, taking comfort from The Cheap Detective. Found this tidbit on Wikipedia: Ed Mintz founded CinemaScore in 1979 after d...

 We thank G-d for spreading the land out on top of the water.  Things are often not what they seem. We approach the world as if it is dry la...

  Today was the first day of finals. This note at the end of one of paper caught my eye and touched by heart. This is an introverted person...

I don't blog daily Such foolish consistency Says "I have no life" - Siobhan Adcock

 I never know what or where to write.  Once I wrote na lot here, more recently on Facebook, always in various diaries and loose pages... may...

My haiku, adapted from this excerpt from Zelda's poem: Slowly Shabbos comes: A rose in her hand, she plucks the descending sun. --------...

I stood in front of the wall of lit tea lights. Feeling the combined heat of their tiny flames. Breathing in their smoke. Taking in the scen...

Why does Pirkei Avot start with the chain of tradition back to Moshe and G-d at Sinai? The answer I've stuck with for years (of R Ovdd...

The Verse They Use to Ask Chacham Devarim 6:20  - When, in time to come, your children ask you, ‘What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that...