The Land's thorns teach us a great secret about love
Reading time: 3 minutes
Which Kind of Friend Pushes Us Away?
True friends call you precisely when they need you
Reading time: 3 minutes
A Sweet Eretz-Israeli Elul
How did the happiest month of the year become a month of fear?
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Prophet of Water and the Prophet of Fire
On the educational paths of Elijah and Elisha
Reading time: 4 minutes
Who Is the Father Who Died in the Song “Met Av U’Met Elul”?
Three fathers created one song over the course of a thousand years
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Small Partings of Life
Mom told you that Avner from the grocery store passed away and you didn't even make it to the funeral, what a schmuck you are
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Secret of the Caper Bush
And how it is connected to the daughters of Zelophehad and the Torah portions of Pinchas and Masei
Reading time: 4 minutes
The Girl Who Opposed the Cable Car at Masada
And what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense wrote back to her
Reading time: 4 minutes
The Tragedy That Gave Us Naomi Shemer
I bore you alone, I raised you alone, and I buried you alone!
Reading time: 3 minutes
Kindergarten Teachers: The Great Educators of Life
A calendar reminder for 20 years from now
Reading time: 3 minutes
Why do kids love sour so much?
And what it has to do with our own missed chances in life
Reading time: 0.5 minutes
Why do centrist parties always fail?
Where did they go: Kulanu, Kadima, Hosen L'Yisrael, the Center Party and the Third Way?
Reading time: 3 minutes
Freeing the Prisoners of Gratitude
With one simple trick
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
Jewish History Through a Stretcher
The essence of history from the perspective of a reserve soldier
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
The Eighty-Four Percent Children
Who drive us out of our minds
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
Living with Last-Day Awareness
And get life insurance, for goodness' sake
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
Our Greatest Victory: The Yom Kippur War
A few important figures
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
“The One Who Is Waiting for Me” Does Not Really Exist
There will never be a perfect match, so what remains is simply to invest
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Levi Eshkol’s Humor Saved Us
And which leader had no sense of humor at all
Reading time: 2 minutes
Why Do You Fight the Lovers of Nature?
And why was the Society for the Love of the Land never founded?
Reading time: 2.5 minutes
Could the Holocaust Have Happened Only in Germany?
"Beware!... In Germany a drama will unfold beside which the French Revolution will seem a harmless idyll" — so said Heinrich Heine a hundred years before the Holocaust
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When Someone Cut in Front of Me in Line, I Understood: There Will Never Be a Second Holocaust
What is the fundamental change the Jewish soul has undergone?
Reading time: 2 minutes
It Was Not God Who Was Murdered at Auschwitz – but Man
Man had already killed God before the Holocaust
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
When a Millionaire Haggles with a Market Vendor over Two Shekels
There is no rationality in stinginess
Reading time: 2.5 minutes
Left-Right, Jewish-Israeli
Two vital voices for the model state
Reading time: 5 minutes
Who Is the Mysterious Beloved of the Song of Songs?
It is customary to read the Song of Songs on Passover; beyond the springtime that suffuses the scroll, there is another fascinating connection
Reading time: 4.5 minutes
Brit milah isn’t simple. And yet: Hineni
How is it that one of the hardest mitzvot in Judaism has the highest observance rate?
Reading time: 4.5 minutes
My systematic method for raising children
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose
Reading time: 3 minutes
The secret of the storytellers
Why the Torah almost never talks about abstract values, and why army education lesson plans are doomed to failure
Reading time: 4 minutes
Let me be perplexed. Simply put: I don’t know
"When I see a man walking among us as one who has resolved every difficulty and refutation... I wonder whether he lives in other worlds" (Berl Katznelson)
Reading time: 3 minutes
Udi wasn’t a leader. Just a driver on the Jerusalem–Masada line
And he hated expectations. And he didn't understand what needed changing. And he didn't know how to shout "Come on, guys!"
Reading time: 4 minutes
Why is it easier to fight to save the dolphins than to smile at your neighbor?
And what it has to do with Miss Universe
Reading time: 3 minutes
Yad Vashem Has Become the Holiest Place for the Jewish People. What Does That Say About Us
We must learn every last detail about the Holocaust, but it must not become our historical justification for this land
Reading time: 3 minutes
Why Snow Is the Symbol of Forgiveness and Atonement
And how this relates to the wondrous quiet that falls the moment the snow begins to come down
Reading time: 2 minutes
Why the Nazis Failed to Establish Extermination Camps in the Dothan Valley
Joseph's pit did not become the killing pits
Reading time: 3.5 minutes
The Hidden Arc of the Book of Samuel
The envy between Saul and David could have ended differently. The Book of Samuel shows us several escape hatches through which peace could have been made between the two royal houses
Reading time: 3 minutes
I Trust You, Brother
I would rather give trust, even if I get cheated
Reading time: 1 minutes
The Kindness of Receiving
Why Neta loves precisely the bland coffee I make her, and why on Passover, to be truly free, we must learn to be a little needy
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Heavy Backpack Theory
Why do we actually walk faster when carrying a heavy backpack?
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Ten Commandments for the Diligent Worker
How to work the way one should? These are the rules we set for ourselves in our farm work in the Arava
Reading time: 2 minutes
Does the Bush Really Burn at Har Karkom?
And how Mount Sinai was marketed to us within the borders of the State of Israel
Reading time: 3 minutes
Two States for Two Peoples, Dan and Judah, the Lion and the Snake
On the roots of the tension between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the advice Samson the hero gave about it
Reading time: 9 minutes
The Pioneering Power of the People of Eastern Transjordan
The men of Gilead were lions. Despite the risk inherent in such a character — sometimes the moment will come when we all need them
Reading time: 9 minutes
What Frightens the Haredim Most About Zionism?
Zionism carried out four major revolutions. The fourth was the most radical
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Why Did Zionism Ignore the Mountain Regions?
Zionism's problems with Judea and Samaria began long before the Six-Day War
Reading time: 4 minutes
Not Only a Covenant of Destiny — but Also a Covenant of the Shared Path
We must learn to walk even when we don't know where to
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The Parasite That Killed the Acacia Tree — and Served Moses as a Dire Parable
In the middle of Shabbat Nitzavim, walking through Moshav Ein Yahav, I suddenly understood the problematic verse
Reading time: 2 minutes
The Hike That Solved the Mystery Behind the Jabbok Crossing
At the Jabbok crossing we received the name of the people of Israel. But what really happened there? For Parashat Vayishlach
Reading time: 4 minutes
All the Mitzvot of Seven Have a Common Denominator
And most of them are followed by the eighth day. For Parashat Behar
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Why Did Evolution Make Women Feel Colder?
And how this relates to bats and to overdressing babies
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Shortest Letters in History
Sometimes less is more
Reading time: 2 minutes
The Joker, Chaos, and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
And how it relates to postmodernism's casting of doubt
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Jewish People’s 38 Club
What connects the holy Ari and Jimi Hendrix
Reading time: 3 minutes
When I Ate Falafel with a Rescuer from the Helicopter Disaster
And should children be exposed to disasters?
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Forgotten Battle of the 1929 Riots
How the battles at Hulda and Motza shaped the Hebrew defense force
Reading time: 2 minutes
How the Desert Landscape Shaped the People of Israel
Sixty percent of our country's territory is desert, and that carries great meaning
Reading time: 3 minutes
Lebanon – Our Greatest Friend
Until the seventies of the twentieth century
Reading time: 3 minutes
Why did the national poetesses come precisely from the Kinneret?
And why does everyone who encounters it burst into song?
Reading time: 1 minutes
Why Does a Blind Man Need to Hold a Flashlight?
If the poor fellow won't help himself a little, we won't be able to help him either
(Ki Tavo)
Reading time: 2 minutes
It’s Not Always Fun to Make Dreams Come True
What did I learn from my little son's Hanukkah money? (Miketz)
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Without You – I’m Really Not Half a Person
On the danger of the thought that I cannot do without you
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People of the Last Call
For the man will not rest until he has settled the matter today!
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Atheism Lost. Secularism Won
And what are the three foundational secular values?
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Halacha That Grows from the People – Questions and Answers
Following the article "If Boaz Had Asked Rabbis, King David Would Never Have Been Born"
Reading time: 4 minutes
Not a New Judaism, but a Broad Judaism
Is Israeli tribalism a curse?
Reading time: 3 minutes
Do Girls in the Army Lose Their Religious Identity?
And what really happens in the religious-secular encounter
Reading time: 3 minutes
How the Little Redhead Fired Me from Being a Shower Singer
And on the many-sided character of Mr. Shoko
Reading time: 3 minutes
A Rare Glimpse into the Mind of the Chronically Disorganized
Or: how many round trips home I make before managing to leave
Reading time: 2 minutes
The Little Redhead
How redheads disprove the theory of evolution
Reading time: 2 minutes
Why Do We Build Sukkot Right After Yom Kippur?
And how it is connected to the biggest sukkah the people of Israel ever had
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A Prayer for Those Who Pray Alone
During the COVID days, many prayed alone on Yom Kippur. The greatest prayers in the Tanakh were like that too
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Haifa Is an Acquired Taste
And why she hops between two opinions
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Tisha B’Av Is Really Not Just About Baseless Hatred
And why we must beware of fighting the previous generation's problems
Reading time: 1 minutes
Mizrahi Jews, Be Jealous. This Is the Spice You’re Missing
On the importance of freezing in Ashkenazi cuisine
Reading time: 0.5 minutes
A Brief History of Postmodernism
And how all this connects to Kofiko, the baby boom, and Yuval Noah Harari
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
The Branches That Rose from the Ashes
How an olive grove in the Galilee helped me understand the verse "a garland instead of ashes"
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How the Borders of the Land Shaped the Israeli Character
The detailed borders in Parashat Masei tell us a great deal about who we are
Reading time: 3 minutes
Why Did the State of Israel Stop Believing in Settling the Negev?
And why this is a grave mistake
Reading time: 4 minutes
To Be a Stone in the Backpack
Why, despite all my years in education, I have no graduates of my own
Reading time: 1.5 minutes
There Is Despair in the World After All!
How much suffering is caused to people who never give up
Reading time: 1 minutes
The Secret of Tu B’Av
Tu B'Av was in fact the fourth pilgrimage festival of the people of Israel. Why was it forgotten? An in-depth essay
Reading time: 12 minutes
The Two-Course Rule
The rule that is going to save your bank account, your marriage and your health
Reading time: 2 minutes
Stop Leading
Why is the epidemic of leadership programs doing us harm?
Reading time: 3.5 minutes
The Kasbah of Life
Life is a tough season. But a colorful one
Reading time: 2 minutes
They Did Not Go Like Sheep to the Slaughter
On a fatal mistake in understanding the Holocaust
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Biggest Mistake About the Term “Masorti”
On a Judaism of rebellion and a Judaism of tradition
Reading time: 2.5 minutes
What Is the Most Beloved Sin in the Tanakh?
On the Ma'apilim on the mountain - for Parashat Shelach
Reading time: 3 minutes
The Job of the Astronomers
About one man who went against all the odds- and in the end..... failed spectacularly
Reading time: 1 minutes
The Four Days That Changed History
On the eve of Tisha B'Av, in the palace of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain, two different events took place that changed history
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If Boaz Had Asked Rabbis, King David Would Never Have Been Born
Halakha is shaped in a pincer movement
Reading time: 3 minutes
How to Save the Family Vacation
After reading this list, your family vacation will never be the same.
