A Life Lesson
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...
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...
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...
May 8, 2025 A conference was held in Berlin on September 21st 1939 at which the long-term future of Jewry was discussed…..In Berlin on April 29th, 1945, Adolf Hitler dictated his political testament….Hitler decided to die...
Now on Spotify. Does everyone need a hashkafa? Can’t my avodas Hashem focus exclusively on living according to the dictates of halacha? And if I think that I do need some sort of hashkafic...
An interesting Midrash is cited by Rav Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer (1880-1933), a great-grandson of the Chasam Sofer who served as the av beis din of Cracow before World War II. The Midrash is found...
The kol korei by the American Agudah Moetzes regarding the WZO election has the makings of a huge make-it-or-break-it gamble. The guy in the street is not being asked whether he is with the...
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