Rabbi Mordechai Becher continues on the theme of “happiness”, this week discussing how laughter can positively affect the soul. Part 3 in the “Happiness Series” View this video directly on VIMEO
Rabbi Mordechai Becher continues on the theme of “happiness”, this week discussing a sure-fire and inexpensive method to bring happiness. View this video directly on VIMEO
The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua. For 410 years, Shlomo Hamelech’s Bais HaMikdash in Jerusalem had been the focal point of Jewish spiritual and national life in Israel. The first major tragedy that the Jews…
As it snows again in New Jersey, Rabbi Mordechai Becher discusses how one can look at another foot of snow and be happier than ever before! View this video directly on VIMEO
I recently cited Thomas Hobbes in an article that I wrote, and I received criticism for bringing a non-Jewish source in a Torah article. I thought it would be of interest to share my response. In citing the philosopher Thomas Hobbes I was actually following an ancient practice which recognizes that there is indeed “wisdom…
Rabbi Mordechai Becher says that the Ten Commandments are misnamed, and they really should be referred to as this… View this video directly on VIMEO
I confess that we in the Becher home are coffee fanatics. We only buy recently roasted beans, grind them in a ceramic grinder, make pour-over coffee using only non-bleached paper filters and do not pollute the coffee with sugar or chas v’shalom, artificial sweeteners and other toxic waste. We recently acquired a cold brew coffee…
The parshiyos that we are currently reading feature Moshe prominently in the story of the Exodus, the Red Sea and the time in the desert. It is fascinating to note, however, that if you look through the Haggadah Moshe is just not there, he is not mentioned. He is mentioned in one place as an…
Rabbi Becher is about to embark on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and while he will guide his students through the exhibits on the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, the gallery on the Jews will be conspicuously absent from the tour. Find out why! View this video directly on VIMEO
As a young boy growing up in Melbourne, Australia, fall was almost non-existent and winter only meant that I had to wear shoes when playing outside and, occasionally, a parka. It never snows in Melbourne, and a brutal winter day can sometimes go down to the mid-40s. Immediately after I finished high school (in December,…