March 28, 2007 • 9 Nisan 5767Supplement to Mishpacha Issue 152

The Sages’ power to manage the Jewish calendar teaches us that the laws of nature are not absolute and do not have total control over human life.

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So many halachos depend on precise timing, yet mechanical clocks are a modern invention. How did our ancestors manage without them?

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Shabbos might have ended up falling on other days of the week if it weren’t for the periodic intervention of important rabbis and community leaders.

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Fleeing to safer communities, Anusim often met contempt from their fellow Jews, but Torah leaders rose to their defense

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Arab creditors succeeded in making life miserable in the old yishuv for Ashkenazi Jews, until the “Ishmaelites forgot their hatred.”

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He had tried his best, but it didn't seem to be good enough.

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Our souls are divided before we are born; our other half may be anywhere on the planter, but I'll recognize him when he shows up.

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Yitzchak Frieberg was practically a slave in Egypt — and Pharaoh was his landlord.

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When Bubby died, Michal felt that she'd lost everything. Until Seder night, when she realized that those we love never really leave us.

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Is a parent measured by his successful children who would have done well even without him, or by those less-than-perfect children who were bequeathed to him?

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