Torah Thoughts

B"H What does it mean to be a Jewish king? Purim introduces us to King Achashverosh, a man ruled by impulse. In anger and intoxication he makes irreversible decisions. He wakes up to the consequences of a night where desire ran the show. That is not kingship. That is chaos. In Judaism, the word Melech teaches the opposite. Moach, Lev, Caved. Mind, heart, body. A true king is someone whose higher consciousness leads. Values shape emotion. Emotion guides action. Not the other way around. Moach shalit al halev. The mind rules the heart. To be a Jewish king is to live from above to below, with wisdom before impulse, with purpose before desire. #Purim #King #Torah #Judaism #JewishIdentity To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Dear Jew, stop lying to yourself. The Megillah says it clearly. Mordechai the Jew. That comes first. You are a Jew. Connected to your people. Connected to Jerusalem. Connected to a story bigger than you. Purim is about uncovering that. Strip it down. Who are you at the core. Start there. Live from there. Good Purim. #Purim #JewishIdentity #Israel #Torah #Judaism To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Dear antisemites of the internet, Antisemitism is a waste of time; it’s futile. The Jewish people are called ma’aminim bnei ma’aminim — believers, children of believers. That doesn’t only mean theology. It means loyalty. Faithfulness. A deep, inherited commitment in our kishkas to Hashem, to Torah, to our people, to Eretz Yisrael. You can attack institutions. You can distort history. You can try to intimidate individuals. But you cannot uproot something that lives in the soul of a people. For thousands of years, attempts to erase us have only strengthened our clarity about who we are. We don’t seek anyone’s destruction. We love life. We love the world. We are loyal to our mission. Am Yisrael is not going anywhere. If you want to argue, fine. If you want to learn, even better. My door is open. #Israel #Zionism #Judaism #Antisemite #Antisemitism To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H This is your daily reminder that Hashem loves you. Not in theory. Not in some distant theological way. With an eternal love. Ahavat Olam. A love that we say twice a day because we forget. It’s not meant to stay in the siddur. It’s meant to land in your heart. To be felt. To be lived. And when we access that love, especially on Shabbat, when the noise quiets and the distractions fall away, we’re meant to pass it forward. Shabbat is the gift that lets us feel that love more clearly and bring it into our homes, our words, our relationships. Hashem loves you. Infinitely. Forever. Shabbat Shalom. #Judaism #Shabbat #God #Emunah #Love To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Do Jewish converts need to be Zionists? Conversion isn’t only about keeping mitzvot in the abstract. The Torah speaks about living this life ba’aretz — in the Land. Hashem, Am Yisrael, and Eretz Yisrael are not separate stories. They are one story. You can debate policy. You can criticize leadership. That’s part of being a thinking Jew. But the Torah itself is unapologetically tied to the Land where it shines in its fullest expression. To join the Jewish people is to join their destiny. And our destiny has always included the Land. That connection isn’t political first. It’s spiritual, historical, and woven into the Torah itself. #Judaism #Conversion #Zionism #Israel #JewishConvert To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Rosh Chodesh Adar begins, and our Rabbis teach, mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simcha — when Adar enters, joy increases. But real simcha isn’t random. The letters of simcha rearrange to form the root of Mashiach. Joy is connected to purpose. To destiny. To knowing what story you are part of. As Rav Noach Weinberg zt’l would say, if you don’t know what you’re living for, you haven’t really begun to live. Adar is an invitation to ask that question. What are you living for? What gives your dancing, your working, your loving, your striving meaning? When life is aligned with purpose, joy stops being superficial and becomes powerful. Chodesh Tov. May it be a month of deep, purposeful simcha. #Adar #Judaism #Happiness #Joy #Torah To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H According to the Torah, the greatest enemy of the Jewish people isn’t only physical. It’s spiritual. It’s that cold voice that shows up whenever you try to grow. Amalek represents that cooling off. You feel inspired, you want to change, to connect deeper, to move closer to Hashem — and then comes the doubt. “That’s nice. It won’t last.” Amalek and safek — doubt — share the same numerical value. The battle isn’t against inspiration. It’s against the voice that tries to freeze it. You don’t defeat that voice by arguing with it. You defeat it by walking. Small steps. Again and again. Keep going while the doubt is talking. Let the lake be frozen. Just don’t let your soul be. #Judaism #Torah #Spirituality #Faith #Growth To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Shehakol nihiyah bidvaro. Everything comes into being through His word. That bracha changes coffee. It changes the way you hold the cup, the way you taste it, the way you think about where it came from and why you’re even here to enjoy it. Judaism isn’t only about the dramatic moments. It’s about realizing that Hashem is speaking this second into existence too. The warmth, the energy, the creativity that follows, the conversation that might come after. When you bring kavana into something small, it stops being small. Even coffee can carry kedushah. #Judaism #Coffee #Gratitude #Torah #Spirituality To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H What does it mean to be a Kiddush Hashem? It doesn’t only mean giving a sermon or wearing something visibly religious. Sometimes it means being excellent in your field and being unapologetically Jewish while doing it. When athletes like Deni Avdija or Zach Hyman speak openly about their Jewish identity, their connection to Hashem, or to Eretz Yisrael, that matters. It plants something in the people watching. Kiddush Hashem means bringing Hashem’s Name into whatever arena you’re in. Sports, business, medicine, tech, construction — anywhere. You never know who is watching, and you never know what spark it might ignite. Pride, integrity, and presence are never insignificant. #Judaism #KiddushHashem #NBA #NHL #Jewish To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Judaism isn’t just a religion of law. It’s a religion of relationship. Love is central — love of Hashem, love of people, love of family, love of the world. But love can’t stay abstract. It has to show up in real life. That’s where halacha comes in. Jewish law isn’t meant to replace love, it’s meant to express it. It gives structure to care, attention to values, and form to devotion. Love becomes real in the details, in how we live, act, and show up every day. That’s when relationship stops being a feeling and becomes a way of life. #Judaism #Torah #Halacha #Relationships #LoveLanguages To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H People sometimes ask whether converts are treated the same as those born Jewish. The answer is simple: once someone joins the Jewish people, they are fully Jewish in every way. Same mitzvot, same responsibilities, same belonging. And then the Torah adds something beautiful. It tells those of us born Jewish to be extra careful, extra loving, extra sensitive. Not because converts are outsiders, but because choosing this life takes courage. The only difference is that the obligation to love runs even deeper. #Torah #Judaism #Conversion #JewishConversion #JewishConverts To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Can you find Hashem snowboarding down a mountain? Of course. Hashem’s Name, Yud-Kay-Vav-Kay, is about presence. Past, present, and future held together in the now. When you’re fully immersed, fully alive, and focused, that state of presence itself can open a feeling of closeness to Hashem. Torah and tefillah matter deeply, and they also deepen how we experience everything else. Being present in the moment, moving your body, and appreciating the gift of being alive in Hashem’s world, that too can be filled with kedushah. Thank you Hashem for the eternal now. 26. #Judaism #Snowboarding #Snow #Hashem #Nature To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H There’s something intense about watching Olympic competition. Years of discipline and devotion come down to one moment. All the practice funnels into performance. You have to meet the moment fully. No hiding. No shortcuts. That feeling maps onto a deep Jewish idea: yirat shamayim. Not fear as dread, but the awareness that every moment matters. That life keeps placing us on the stage, asking us to show up with presence, effort, and integrity. Not with anxiety or paralysis, but with fire. What would it look like to bring that Olympic-level focus into our relationships, our work, our choices? To meet the moment and give it our best. #Olympics #Judaism #Torah #FearGod #Purpose To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H There are two deep emotions that show up again and again in the story of Yitro, and they speak directly to anyone drawn toward Judaism. First is shema — not just hearing, but listening deeply, internalizing, and responding. Feeling a quiet but persistent call from Hashem. Second is love of Am Yisrael. Yitro didn’t just hear God — he saw God’s hand in Jewish history and wanted to belong to this people. Conversion isn’t only about mitzvot or belief. It’s about hearing the call, loving the people, and choosing to join a story that Hashem is clearly guiding. You were at Sinai then. You are part of us now. Shabbat Shalom. #Torah #Judaism #Conversion #JewishConversion #JewishConverts To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Hebrew changes everything. The “Ten Commandments” aren’t commandments at all. They’re Aseret HaDibrot — ten all-encompassing statements that hold the entire Torah within them. When you understand that, everything opens up. “Lo tignov” isn’t only about stealing objects. It’s also about not stealing time, not stealing a life you were given, and not stealing from the world by withholding your gifts. Every moment is a gift from Hashem. Use it with intention. #Torah #Judaism #Hebrew #TenCommandments #God To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Parshat Yitro teaches something essential. The Jewish people are not complete without converts. Yitro didn’t stand on the sidelines. He shaped the nation and brought the wisdom Moshe needed to hear. That’s why the parsha of receiving the Torah carries his name. Revelation itself is incomplete without you. If you’re considering conversion, in the process, or feeling unsure, know this: you are needed, and your contribution matters. #Judaism #Jewishconvert #Converts #Conversion #Torah To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H One of the clearest signs of redemption in our tradition is when the Land of Israel gives its fruits generously. Rashi teaches that when Eretz Yisrael begins to bloom again, it means the land is awake and responding to its people. Today, we see this with our own eyes: wine, agriculture, innovation, and abundance. That’s why Tu Bishvat has become so elevated in our time. Tasting the fruits of Eretz Yisrael isn’t just physical; it’s spiritual. It’s a way of connecting to the land, its kedushah, and the unfolding story of return. When the land flourishes, so does the soul of the people. L’chaim. #TuBishvat #Israel #Judaism #Mashiach #Geulah To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H Tu Bishvat reminds me of what grounds me. In Judaism, Torah is called an etz chaim, a tree of life. Torah is root work. It connects us to our ancestors, to the depth of our own souls, and gives us the strength to stand upright in this world. When we are rooted, we can grow, shine, and bear fruit. Torah helps us feel at home in who we are and in the world we’re meant to build. #TuBishvat #Torah #Judaism #Roots #Growth To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H On Tu Bishvat, we’re reminded that people are meant to be like trees. In Hebrew, eitzah (guidance) shares its root with eitz (tree). Real guidance comes from being rooted, from listening deeply, and from speaking with care and timing. May we grow strong roots and bear fruit that helps others connect to the depths of their souls. Tu Bishvat Sameach 💚 #TuBishvat #Torah #Judaism #Growth #Roots To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

B"H People are always curious how Jews “control the wealth” or “run the world.” So here’s the inside version. Judaism actually has a very simple framework for making a living, and it comes from the story of the manna in the desert. First, we don’t believe it’s really in our control. A living comes from Hashem, and asking Him for it is real and necessary. Second, we work. Six days a week. You still have to go out and gather. And third, the part people miss, we stop. Shabbat. We rest and trust that the world doesn’t fall apart when we pause. Trust, work, rest. That’s the whole “secret.” Shabbat Shalom. #Wealth #Money #Torah #Judaism #Shabbat To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!