Pesach
Rabbi Berel Wein The holiday of Pesach represents many basic values in Jewish life. Foremost, naturally, is that of liberty and freedom from oppression, slavery, and domination by others. The holiday is described as being the holiday of our freedom. But there is another basic idea and value that underlies the commemoration of our exodus […]
Is Olam Haba for Sale?
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow A few years ago, a Jewish individual put his portion of Olam Haba, the World to Come, up for auction on eBay. The bidding started in the morning at 99 cents and had jumped to $100,000 by the afternoon. (Before the bidding ended, eBay removed the item due to rules that items […]
Monopoly Money
Allan Rolnick, CPA In 1935, Americans were mired in the depths of the Great Depression. Gross domestic product had shrunk from $103.6 billion in 1929 to $73.3 billion. Unemployment stood at a horrendous 20.1%. Even the suicide rate was higher during those dark years. And on February 6th of that year, the Parker Brothers company […]