About the Author


Rabbi Noson Weisz

While studying at the famed yeshivas of Chaim Berlin, Lakewood and the Mir in Jerusalem, Rabbi Noson Weisz also received a degree in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, MA in Political Science at the New School for Social Research and his LLB from the University of Toronto. Rabbi Weisz is currently a senior lecturer at Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem.

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Parsha: The Great Communicator

Peace in Israel: A Jewish Perspective

Peace in Israel is possible, but ultimately not through the force of arms.

Mind Over Matter

The mitzvah of counting the Omer holds the key to understanding the proper balance between thoughts and feelings.

Mind Over Matter

The mitzvah of counting the Omer holds the key to understanding the proper balance between thoughts and feelings.

Tablets for Living

Comparing the two tablets: one containing obligations toward God, the other obligations toward people.

The Parallel Universe

Abraham's world of Shabbat is personally piloted by God.

Mayanot on Prayer #5: Pouring Out Your Heart

Within the Afternoon Prayer lies the secret to our survival.

Festivals of Spring

Passover offers the spiritual opportunity to move from hesitant faith to empowering knowledge.

Mayanot on Prayer #4: Negotiating with God

God is interested in our plans for the world and He wants to hear from us.

Mayanot on Prayer #3: Fixing the World through Prayer

Prayer pierces through God's concealment and reattaches the universe to the Divine.

Mayanot on Prayer #2: Our Father, Our King

Prayer transforms the desire to satisfy our requests to the desire to satisfy God's requests.

Mayanot on Prayer #1: I Pray Therefore I Am

The commandment to prayer bequeaths to man the sense of his own significance that enables him to perform all the other commandments with dedication.

The Spark of Freedom

Passover affixed within the collective Jewish soul the commitment to build a better world free of cynicism and moral confusion.

The Doubting Heart

Purim changed our relationship to God from being driven by fear to being driven by love.

The Soul #4 - To Catch a Thief

An in-depth, Kabbalistic view of the makeup of the soul, and the impact of sin.

The Soul #3 - Ten Sefirot

Understanding the building blocks of spiritual entities.

Why Judgment?

On Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment, we don't spend the day pleading for our lives to be spared. Why not?

Judgment Tempered With Mercy

Is Yom Kippur a day of atonement or a day of judgment?

Parsha: Judgment Tempered With Mercy

Is Yom Kippur a day of atonement or a day of judgment?

Parsha: Holy of Holies

It is the holiest space in the Jewish world. It is also the holiest space inside each one of us. The Holy of Holies. Plunge the depths...

We Will Do and We Will Hear

If the Jews gathered at Mount Sinai were eager to receive the Torah, why the need for Divine coercion?

The Book of Ruth: A Mystery Unraveled

She was a Moabite princess who converted to Judaism in the 10th century BCE, but what does her story have to do with the events at Mount Sinai more than 300 years earlier?

The Soul #2 - What Do Souls Look Like?

Understanding the five levels of soul and how they relate to man and creation.

The Soul #1 - Who Needs It?

What is the function of the soul in this world?

The Innocent Bystander_

What gives a nation the right to defend itself -- if innocent civilians will be killed?

Faith and the Mideast Problem

All leaders draw their power from faith. The only question is where that faith is directed. In times of national crisis, that decision is critically important.

Apocalypse Now?

The terrorist's power is psychological. What will happen to the Western world when its bubble of security and control is pricked?

From Ruins to Hope

The renewal of the Jewish Nation in our time gives us an unprecedented chance for unity.

Harry Potter and the War Between Good and Evil

As a Jew, I could not help but reflect on the contrasting attitudes between Judaism and the world of Harry Potter towards this epic struggle.

Parsha: Give Me Liberty; Give Me Death

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