Mitzvah; Mitzvot

Your soul came into this world to shop. Heaven is one big party, and you’d better arrive dressed in style. Don’t take my word on this. Take the Mishnah. It compares our world to a kind of powder room, where you fancy yourself up before walking into the gr...

One source in the Talmud posits that at some point in the Messianic era the commandments will become nullified and obsolete. Yet other sources indicate that the commandments are eternal? This class will resolve the apparent contradiction and present an ov...

My friend is having issues with his digestive system. I have always nudged him to grow in his spiritual life. Now he is asking me if this could be connected to his not fulfilling G‑d’s commandments to their fullest. What can I tell him?

How the cumulative effect of our positive actions results in the perfect world of Moshiach.

The kind deed he had done was able to reach him forty-five years later, and breathe a renewed enthusiasm in him to enjoy his activities of daily living . . .

Does 613, the number of commandments G‑d gave the Jews, have any symbolic meaning?

Question: My granddaughter is becoming bat mitzvah, and my 92-year-old mom is saying she will not be able to go because she cannot drive on Shabbat. But is it allowable—for this special occasion—for her to violate Shabbat just this once? The way I see it,...

My wife tells me that it is tradition to give the woman in your life flowers before Shabbat. Is this true and, if yes, what is the significance? Secondly, why give something like cut flowers that die?

Turn any mitzvah inside out and you’ll see a light—an active and energetic light that looks to shine in every black corner. Turn any mitzvah inside out and you’d see . . . a menorah.