Baruch Hashem! After two years of dedicated work, countless hours, and the collaboration of an incredible team, Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s new sefer, The True Power of Speech: The Key to Both Worlds, has finally been published. This remarkable work explores the profound spiritual power of speech and its connection to Lashon Hara, exile, redemption, and the destiny of Klal Yisrael. Drawing on Rabbi Kessin’s extensive Torah knowledge, the sefer offers a deeper understanding of the s

Torah Perspective Tonight is a shiur on a very timely and fascinating topic. It's an understanding of why the World Trade Center disaster occurred. How can we understand where such events will lead and what they mean? This is what I want to speak about tonight. What we must understand when we approach an historical event as recent, as dramatic, as that which occurred on September 11th 2001 is that we, the Jewish people, must analyze it from a Torah perspective. We don't gain

Given: 8/29/2021 Introduction: The Timing Rava says that mashiach will come motzei shmita—after the sabbatical year, this coming year. What is interesting is that we know that shmita begins this September but, after seven of these (49 years), is the yovel—Jubilee. For Rava, the “proclaiming of liberty throughout the land” when many things return to original ownership is, conceptually, that all returns to G-d. Since G-d has given away everything so that everyone can take--whe