Rabbi Cohen’s Writings

Dear Friends, I recently came upon a story that Carol Paster handed me some twenty years ago as she said, “You’ll find a use for this some day.” The story told of a boy who was fascinated watching a butterfly struggle to emerge from the cocoon that had [...]

Dear Friends, The Talmud relates the following tale. It states: There were these hooligans in Rabbi Meir's neighborhood who caused him a great deal of anguish. Rabbi Meir prayed for God to have mercy on them, that they should die. Rabbi Meir's wife, Berurya, said to him: What is your thinking? On what [...]

Dear Friends, The story is told that sometime before the start of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Mordecai of Nadvorna, a 19th-century sage, stopped another rabbi who was obviously in a great hurry. “Why are you rushing from place to place?” Reb Mordecai asked. His colleague replied, “I must study [...]