Messages from September 2024

Rabbi O’s Weekly: Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)

) Believing in Your Future  In the past, Jewish farmers would bring their harvest’s first fruits to Jerusalem. They would travel together with other farmers led by oxen whose horns had been coated in gold adorned with olive branches placed on their heads, and flutes musically accompanied the procession; they would travel for only […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9)I Hear You Knocking, but You Can’t Come In

A chassid was plagued by constant negative thoughts and couldn’t concentrate due to temptation, fantasy, worry, and anxiety. One night he was so desperate that he went to his Rebbe’s house hoping the Rebbe would impart some wisdom for how to rid himself of these destructive thoughts. He knocked on the front door, but nobody answered. He […]