Why Say Tefilas HaDerech?
Tefilas HaDerech is recited before taking a trip outside the city limits. In this tefillah, we ask Hashem to protect us from the perils of travel.
Tefilas HaDerech is recited before taking a trip outside the city limits. In this tefillah, we ask Hashem to protect us from the perils of travel.
We tend to think that brachos are for holy things, like mitzvos, or for the more obvious blessings in our lives like the food we eat. And yet...
The month of Elul is the perfect opportunity to brush up on important concepts like middos, tefillah and shofar. Torah Live provides Jewish kids with an in-depth and entertaining way to do just that.
This week’s parsha, Ekev, includes the second paragraph of shema, vehaya im shamoa, which is the source of the mitzvah of tefillah according to the Rambam.
What can we do today to engage kids? To get them interested, to get them excited about life? To wake up in the morning energized, happy to live and breathe and be alive?