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“Everyone wants to quit at some point, but if you don’t push yourself, you fall further behind and…
The Torah tells us that after the death of Aharon’s two sons, “Vayidom Aharon— and Aharon was silent.”…
I shall never forget his matter-of-fact reply, as if I had just pitched a suggestion even more idiotic…
What’s on the minds of the mega-siyum organizers, and what stirs their hearts as they put the finishing…
I figured, I’d already done daf yomi for two and a half cycles; now it was time to…
“Was it really worth it for me to spend an hour trying to even say two lines of…
With each passing day, the anxiety began to build, and the pessimism began to percolate.
Figuring that daf yomi was for the older generation of serious balabatim, I told myself that maybe I’d…
Nothing is forever, my sponsor said. Just take it one day at a time. Don’t obsess about tomorrow.…
”If you want the learning you do to really make an impact,” Rav Schorr told the men, “then…
Why did I have that niggling feeling that I was being held in an invisible chokehold? Wasn’t this…
When a family member’s life hangs in the balance, and you sit paralyzed with fear, Tehillim provides a…
Each day passed with a sense of victory, a sense of anticipation, of emunah, of hope. Day 10,…
I got curious. Mutti was an enigmatic fellow and I knew he wouldn’t give me any easy answers,…
My dedication to fulfilling my section means so much to me; I so badly need to do something…
I had just decided to keep Shabbos from now on, only to discover that my family had been…
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“But maybe, just maybe, one of us will survive. And maybe that person will be you."
Three of the stellar team of top-flight talmidei chachamim who toiled for years to complete the Artscroll Shas…
No matter what is going on in your life, you can always count on that hour every day…
And so the day after her levayah, as I watched her husband crumple in on himself, I took…
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Chananya Kramer spent the last 18 months filming daf yomi chaburos around the globe - and received the…
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