Posts Tagged: Abraham Judaism

Lech Lecha: How Abraham Learned to Speak
In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a strange looking creature, unlike any animal they had ever seen...

First Build the Future — Then Remember the Past
On August 11, 2017, the world’s oldest man passed away, just a month short of his 114th birthday -- making him one of the ten oldest men...

Raising, and Learning From, a Special Child
Just after our daughter Zeesy’s first birthday, she suffered her first grand mal seizure. Optimism is ingrained in our Chassidic culture, so we were extremely...

How to Be a Jewish Parent
The most influential man who ever lived does not appear on any list I have seen of the 100 most influential men who ever lived. He...

We Must Look to the Future, and Move on From the Past
He was 137 years old. He had been through two traumatic events involving the people most precious to him in the world. The first involved...