eb Chaim Brisker was once attending a Talmudic lecture when the lecturer quoted an idea in the name of tosfos. Immediately, Reb Chaim objected, “There is no such tosfos in all of Shas.” Everyone in the crowd started to ooh and ah at Reb Chaim’s...
It is told that when the Israeli government captured Adolf Eichmann, yemach shmo, they deliberately chose a sephardic officer to be on guard. They feared that if the guard would be an Ashkenazi, he would not be able to control himself and would hurt or kill Eichmann...
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress. However, due to race related politics, she was assigned to the Agricultural Committee, a role that seemed designed to diminish her influence and impact. Shirley was dejected. She felt like her political...
There’s a story told of a poor Jewish villager who saved up all year to buy an esrog. It was a mitzvah that he held very dear. Every week, he’d put away a few rubles to be able to afford the nicest esrog possible. That year, there was a shortage on...
There’s a story told in the Gemara about Rabbi Yochanan, who in the course of his teaching described a certain wave in the ocean, which was extraordinarily high. Upon hearing this, one of his students scoffed at the idea. It seemed fantastical and not factual....
