Rising Above

Rising AboveBasic standards of modesty, maintained in previous generations, have been breached and eliminated in today's world. Wherever we are, we find ourselves tested in matters of kedushah. Rising Above addresses this head on speaking to everyone, and not just to those who have stumbled. Among the topics addressed are: Why is preserving our kedushah so fundamental to Judaism? From where can we draw the strength to resist what is so easily accessible? What

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children will delight in the absorbing plots

originally published in the Yated Ne'eman newspaper

Learning about the various stages of labor is the first step to a calmer

midrashim and commentaries

twin brothers Rabbis Mark and Michael Weingarten

Rabbi Tzadok Cable is originally from Miami

That is hardly surprising

The classic work of the Shach (Rav Shabsai HaKohein) on the Talmudic concept of "tefisa"

Ashkenazim and Sephardim alike

never arriving at their real destination

leaving us year after year in more or less the same (frustrating) place