Rabbi Mark Fasman

Tikkun Leil Shavuot
We all know how important education is to Jews.  How far back does this go?  Beginning with our Exodus from Egypt, our survival as a people has depended upon our success in transmitting culture, history, and behavioral norms to the next generation.  Torah commands us to teach our children.  For example, we are [...]

This month begins with Pesach. It is a great story, the story that is at the very foundation of Jewish identity. The haggadah makes it very clear that all of the events of the exodus from Egypt are because God made them happen. The Egyptians are punished. The sea splits. We are free. We are [...]

Early in my Israel year of rabbinical school, I was at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem one morning. I was trying to daven, to recapture the experience of my first visit five years earlier. Every couple of minutes a man in a black hat (a different man each time) would come and stand next [...]