As we continue to prepare for the Yomim Tovim, here is another super delicious (and super easy!) recipe which incorporates the siman of fish, שנפרה ונרבה כדגים - would that we be fruitful and multiply like fish.  This recipe was inspired by my friend who told...

In this week’s parsha, Parshas Shoftim, the Torah commands us regarding fruit trees, which may not be cut down or destroyed: כִּי-תָצוּר אֶל-עִיר יָמִים רַבִּים לְהִלָּחֵם עָלֶיהָ לְתָפְשָׂהּ, לֹא-תַשְׁחִית אֶת-עֵצָהּ לִנְדֹּחַ עָלָיו גַּרְזֶן--כִּי מִמֶּנּוּ תֹאכֵל, וְאֹתוֹ לֹא תִכְרֹת:  כִּי הָאָדָם עֵץ הַשָּׂדֶה, לָבֹא מִפָּנֶיךָ בַּמָּצוֹר...

Once again, in this week’s parsha, Parshas Eikev, we are awed and inspired by the passionate, eloquent, moving and heartfelt words of Moshe Rabbeinu, who began his career as a man “not of words.”  The pasuk says: כָּל-הַמִּצְוָה, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם--תִּשְׁמְרוּן לַעֲשׂוֹת:  לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּן וּרְבִיתֶם,...