Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

We must remember that what hurts you will also eventually hurt me and that we, the collective we, will not survive. Community is where we find God. Our relationship with God is We-Thou, not I-Thou.

Just over five years ago, the world lost one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant, when his helicopter ...

We journey in hope. This is what I learned during a Lenten retreat I attended with fellow priests this past week. As we journey, we look forward to God’s ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed, recounted the role he played in the installation of Oba Ogunwusi, expressing dismay that ...

He ordered his troops to draw their swords and prepare for a massacre. They were 400 strong, and the world was about to ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has disclosed the vital role God used him to play in the installation of ...

The greatest night of the year for Muslims, Laylatul-Qadr (Night of Decree), falls on the 26th of March. It is a special night that is blessed by the revelation of the holy Quran to humanity. The last ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has accused Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi of trying to dethrone him. He ...

Does the self-survival of the self- proclaimed “Holy” – the Orthodox Jews – take precedence over the morals proclaimed by God and set down by Moses in Leviticus which include respect for others, ...

A quiet but bruising war is raging between the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye ...

He had no assurances, only God’s promise that he would know God’s presence in hindsight: “You will know I am with you when ...