CHOCHMAS NASHIM: NOAH: PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE By: Suri Davis   Tanya Yomi for this week discusses a situation where there is a man who is praying to G-d, a seemingly wicked man appears before him and starts a fight with the praying man.  The founder of Chasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, had followers, chasidim, and those…

YIZKOR: AN ESSAY By: Suri Davis   It has been a year and a half since my father, ZTL, passed away, and since I started saying Yizkor for him.  As Orthodox Jews, we are taught that the soul is eternal.  We know from the Book of Jeremiah, and Rachel’s tears upon the horizon, that her…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: MAN, THE BRIDGE By: Suri Davis   The apex of the Book of Jonah we read on Yom Kippur eve, is G-d’s lesson to Jonah.  Jonah is tired after all he has gone through with the storm ridden ship, being swallowed by a whale, and providing warnings to the citizens of Ninveh that…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE By: Suri Davis There is a popular retort to the famous Rosh Hashanah query:  “How was your Rosh Hashanah?”  Reply: “I’ll let you know next year.”  If you are reading this, then the answer, at the very least is, “I survived.”  After two and a half years of Covid,…

Mazel Tov Esther and Nachman Goodman on the birth of a grandson born to their children Riki and Tzvi Gewirtz

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KI TAVO By: Suri Davis               The parshah almost appears to be a repetition of parshat Bechukotai, if you follow G-d’s commandments, you will be rewarded, and if you don’t follow G-d’s commandments, then you will be punished.  A recurring theme in any religion.  Let’s review some interesting points up close.            …

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  LIVING MILLENNIA IN A WEEK, PART I By: Suri Stern   A call came from Jerusalem “Eema, we need your help here, can you come?”  I heard the details, and I said, “of course.”   How could I get there quickly and economically?  No one was flying on the Fast of the Ninth…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: DEVARIM: EICHAH: YIDDELIN SHRAI AD MASAI By:  Suri Davis אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טׇרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃ How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering! Deuteronomy 1:12 Moses asks the nation, how he can carry the burden of the people, how he can lead alone. The first word…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  PINCHAS: TRANSFORMATION By: Suri Davis   There is a beautiful concept roaming around these last three torah portions that is so integral to where we are now in history. We have the story in the portion of Chukat, where Moses is told to glorify G-d’s name by talking to the rock and he…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  BALAK: ELECTIONS, PEARSALL DEVELOPMENT By: Suri Davis   It’s insulting already how there has not been one Orthodox woman put on a meaningful election ballot in Nassau County.  The last time there was a meaningful Jewish female candidate was Carol Berman: Wikipedia:  Carol Berman (born September 21, 1923) is a New York Democratic Party politician from Lawrence, in Nassau…