Tag: Bikkurim


  • The Deeper Message of Shabbat: Understanding Creation’s Purpose

    In Parshat Yitro, we encounter one of the most fundamental mitzvot in the Aseret HaDibrot: “Zachor et Yom HaShabbat l’kad’sho” – “Remember the Shabbat day to sanctify it.” The Torah commands us to work for six days and then rest on the seventh, “For in six days Hashem made the heavens and the earth, and…

  • Rediscovering Value by Returning to the Source

    Ever notice that the further something gets from its origin, the less we value it? I see this all the time, in the simplest things—from how we spend money to how we experience the world around us. It’s like the value fades the more distant we are from what it really is at its core.…