Posts by Yosef Farhi

click rosh hashana 2026 to download The Art of Being Wrong Humility isn’t a virtue you add to teshuvah — it’s the thing that makes teshuvah possible. A person sunk deep in arrogance cannot do teshuvah — not because Hashem won’t accept it, but because teshuvah has a first step, and that step is the…

click ki tavo 2026 to download THE ART OF SURVIVING ROSH HASHANA THAT FALLS OUT ON SHABBAT On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, you will not hear the shofar. The first day of 5787 falls on Shabbat — Saturday, September 12 — and on Shabbat we don’t blow. The shofar waits until Sunday. It…

click ki tetze 2026 to download The Art of Immersion The Parsha talks about when a man marries a woman. It says the following words three times in our Parasha.  כִּֽי־יִקַּ֥ח אִ֖ישׁ אִשָּׁ֑ה The rabbis of the Midrash recorded a case study. A righteous man was married to a righteous woman. They had no children.…

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…