Purple Sheet

This week, right before Shabbat, is Rosh Chodesh Elul – the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul. That means we are...

This week’s parsha has a cavalcade of mitzvot – 55 in total. Some of them don’t get a whole lot of press such as...

Last week we marked the fast day of Tisha B’Av. Tisha B’Av is the national day of tragedy for the Jewish people....

If Only We Had A Prophet This week’s parsha is a continuation of the lengthy final speech that Moshe delivered to the...

This week we begin the fifth and final book of the Torah, Sefer Devarim – The Book of Deuteronomy. Devarim is unique amongst the...

This week we were treated to the spectacle of the Iranian state funeral of Ali Khamenei attended by hundreds of thousands throughout the...

The United States of America is celebrating its 250th birthday on Shabbat. Growing up in Canada in the 60’s we had very little...

Go Your Own Way In one of this week’s double parshas the Jewish people are confronted with an enemy of a different...

I have been speaking to many people about the Iran deal that has taken place this week, and this excellent piece by Rabbi...

Some are under the mistaken impression that the reason the Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years was because of the sin...