Two of the most important concepts in Judaism are derived from this week’s Torah portion, Emor. They are: kiddush hashem, the mitzvah of sanctifying God’s name, and chillul hashem, profaning God’s ...

“The essence and reality of [how] Shabbos [can reinvigorate the world with another six days’ worth of ko’ach] is only through the fact that people keep and observe Shabbos! Throughout the millennia of ...

We are living in interesting times. In years past, it would be clear that an intermarriage, between a Jew and a Methodist, with a rabbi and a Methodist minister co-officiating, on a Shabbat afternoon, ...

Portion of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s The Sacrifice of Isaac, mid-1750s. The Kli Yakar observes that this is a tribute to Pinchas’s mesiras nefesh (self-sacrifice) for the honor of Hashem. Dovid ...

One of the greatest problems plaguing the Jewish people is their inferiority complex. Jews are commanded to sanctify God’s name. In Hebrew the term is kiddush Hashem. The root of the word kiddush ...

I have spent the last week in Camp Moshava in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Being here has been a real treat. Camp Moshava is a living breathing “kiddush Hashem”. One of the many outstanding aspects of my ...

When Moshe and Aaron approached Pharaoh time after time, demanding in the Name of “Hashem, G-d of Israel" that he free his Jewish slaves, they were obeying G-d’s instructions in Exodus 3:18 precisely.

Thirty days on, Chabad of Bondi and the Sydney community come together to pause, remember, and stand united as we commemorate ...