Posts by Yosef Farhi

click shoftim 2026 to download The Art of Finding the Good Parashat Shoftim opens with something that sounds purely technical. Appoint judges and officers in all your gates, and let them judge the people — v’shafetu et ha’am mishpat tzedek, with a judgment of righteousness. But a judge is already supposed to be honest; that’s…

click re’eh 2026 to download The Art of Being Zionist It is hard for me to hear a Jew in America say that because my sons learn in yeshiva instead of serving, he is a Zionist and I am not. What makes a person a Zionist? That he supports Israel, believes the Jewish people deserve…

click ekev 2026 to download THE ART OF BEING ANTIFRAGILE Resilient people survive shock. Antifragile people improve from it. I will explain the difference between the two mindsets, and how you can become antifragile, not just resilient. The antifragile mindset, is the mindset that stress enhances life, and is the only way to growth and…

click vaetchanan 2026 to download The Art of the Unanswered Prayer There’s a question most people are too embarrassed to say out loud. Why doesn’t my davening seem to do anything? Rav Saadia Gaon answered it a thousand years ago with a list of seven reasons a prayer is not heard. Six of them are…

click devarim 2026 to download THE ART OF ASKING AYEKAH On Tisha B’Av, the darkest day of the calendar, the day both Temples burned, we omit Tachanun supplications, exactly as we do on holiday festivals (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 559:4). The reason is a verse from Eicha, the very scroll of our grief: kara alai…