There is Someone Who Needs Your Help

Even in the deepest exile, the Jewish people did not lose their identity. By keeping Jewish names, they merited to be redeemed. Here is why living with a strong Jewish identity is so crucial. 

A lesson on this week's Torah Portion, Mishpatim: Why are the Jewish people compared to widows and orphans? What did we lose?

The Talmud teaches that when a person provides shelter for someone in need, they become partners with G-d in creating humanity, for a home gives a person their identity. Join Rabbi Greenberg as he discusses how every mitzvah we do gives G-d the ability to fulfill the purpose of creation. For G-d, too, is in need of a home.

Abraham is the first Jew and known as the father of our nation ("our forefather Abraham", " Abraham our father", etc). How are these two ideas related? And how can we call someone from so far back in our history our father?

A person's life mission was divinely decided. It's not always the grand title we imagined; sometimes our mission is simply to help the person sitting next to us.