Rabbi Elisha Friedman

Passover is a symbol of hope that the redemption from slavery in Egypt prefigures the full redemption still to come.

Israel Salanter is said to have publicly eaten on Yom Kippur as a sign to other Jews they should put health concerns above ritual ones.

Opening this primary prayer by invoking our ancestors emphasizes that our relationships with our parents is a model for our relationship with God.

Tisha B'Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, is testament to the failure of prayer to avert national catastrophe.

These "verses of praise" seek to reorient us away from egocentrism.

The holiday of drunken revelry is also the day that proves the Torah's assertion that God answers all prayers.

How praying daily with ten strangers helped me recover after my wife's miscarriage.

Why does the prayer recited on Hanukkah fail to make any mention of the holiday's central miracle?