Abraham J. Heschel

“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.” Abraham J. Heschel

Jewish Biography

Keep your kitchen kosher

Kashrus in the Kitchen Q & A A Comprehensive Question-and-Answer Guide to the Halachos of Meat and Milk By Rabbi A. Wiesenfeld

Keep your kitchen kosher and don't cry over spilled milk--with this handy book!

Finally--the book the cook (and all other family members!) has long awaited. This question-and-answer guide takes the guesswork out of kashrus. With clear, authoritative answers to real-life questions, you'll feel that the author has been listening in on your kitchen when you read this comprehensive book. Can a microwave be kashered? What happens when milk spills into a batch of chicken? How many hours do children need to wait between milk and meat? What happens to dishes of dairy and meat washed in the same sink with hot water? And, of course, can challah baked in a meat oven be eaten with cheese? This book is a must for every kitchen, an answer to every kashrus prayer for the scholar and layman alike. With extensive footnotes and a thorough index.

Book Tags - kitchen meat milk kashrus kosher meat dairy rabbi basar v'chalav

Most people are servants of their passions, but the truly free person is the one who can control his desires. When the sages taught "Only one involved in Torah is truly free" (Pirkei Avos 6:2), they meant to say that only Torah allows one to free himself from the shackles of desire and to truly exercise free choice. Without Torah, one is not free at all, he is a slave, controlled by a master foreign to his better instincts. While intellectually he might have correct ideas of how to live, ultimately his master - his passion - will force him to act otherwise.

Excerpt from: The Torah Treasury pg. 146

"Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know."

- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers

Intolerance lies at the core of evil.
Not the intolerance that results
from any threat or danger.
But intolerance of another being who dares to exist.
Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us,
because every human being secretly desires
the entire universe to himself.
Our only way out is to learn
compassion without cause. To care for each other
simple because that 'other' exists.

- Rabbi Menachem Mendle

“If you believe that you can damage, believe you can fix.”

– Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

“One grain of intelligence can overcome the world and all its temptations” -- Rebbe Nachman

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

"I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations … They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern."

- John Adams, Second President of the United States
(From a letter to F. A. Van der Kemp [Feb. 16, 1808] Pennsylvania Historical Society)

"All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, all that is published should not be read."

- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe)