by Avi Shafran · June 17, 2025
In their declaration that the conquest of Cna’an will proceed successfully, Yehoshua and Calev employ an odd metaphor: The idolatrous residents of the land, they say, will be vanquished because “they are our bread”...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · June 16, 2025
This time it really is three opinions. Join us as we host Dr Moshe Krakowski, a pioneer in the empirical study of issues in the Orthodox community. Although usually studying the charedi cohort, he...
by Avi Shafran · June 9, 2025
Mishpacha Magazine asked me to contribute, as part of a symposium, a short essay on the topic of a lesson I would want my children to internalize. The symposium was recently published, and my...
by Avi Shafran · June 9, 2025
Rashi, quoting the Gemara, understands the nation’s “weeping about its family” (Bamidbar 11:10) as referring to ‘matters of family’ – to the fact that relatives who were once permitted to be joined in marriage...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · June 6, 2025
There are some (pleasant) surprises, and some lessons to be learned. The results are only tentative, since thousands of votes are being challenged as possibly fraudulent. Entire slates are being challenged. Nonetheless, we can...
In their declaration that the conquest of Cna’an will proceed successfully, Yehoshua and Calev employ an odd metaphor: The idolatrous residents of the land, they say, will be vanquished because “they are our bread”...
This time it really is three opinions. Join us as we host Dr Moshe Krakowski, a pioneer in the empirical study of issues in the Orthodox community. Although usually studying the charedi cohort, he...
Mishpacha Magazine asked me to contribute, as part of a symposium, a short essay on the topic of a lesson I would want my children to internalize. The symposium was recently published, and my...
Rashi, quoting the Gemara, understands the nation’s “weeping about its family” (Bamidbar 11:10) as referring to ‘matters of family’ – to the fact that relatives who were once permitted to be joined in marriage...
There are some (pleasant) surprises, and some lessons to be learned. The results are only tentative, since thousands of votes are being challenged as possibly fraudulent. Entire slates are being challenged. Nonetheless, we can...
Haftaros always have some connection to something in the parsha, but few are as explicitly related to what was read from the Torah as the haftarah of parshas Naso, which haftarah , like part...
Is it good, bad, or both to live in a bubble? What to do when you never had to live in an echo chamber before – and now find yourself planted in the middle...
We read parshas Bamidbar (Bimidbar, if one wants to be didactic) on the Shabbos before Shavuos. The meaning of that juxtaposition might lie in the word by which the parsha is known ((however one...
There are a number of common English aphorisms that parallel (or are sourced in) Talmudic statements. What Chazal said in Avos (1:15), “Say little and do much” echoes in “Actions speak louder than words.”...
Have we become hooked on segulot? Why have they become the rage in recent decades, with no end in sight to their popularity? What does this tell us about the current state of emunah...
