“Coming Out” and the Orthodox Rabbinate
אלו קרבנו לפני הר סיני ולא נתן לנו את התורה דינו – Had God brought us before Mount Sinai and not given us the Torah, it would have sufficed. (Dayenu, Pesach Hagadah) How would standing...
Category: Judaism
When “Right” is Wrong
There is a social media page titled “Justice for Harambe,” Harambe being the gorilla that was shot to death in the Cincinnati Zoo after dragging around a 3-year-old boy who had slipped into its...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Bamidbar 5776
Harav Moshe Schwab, zt”l Guest Blogger: Religious Maturation & Publicly Refining our Theological Positions – A YCT student disavows his previous heretical writings two days before his ordination. Shavuos is Coming! Do I have to...
Where’s the Meat? What’s the Meat?
The Tochacha (Reprimand) of Parshas Bechukosai, while not the longest Tochacha in the Torah, is very unique, for rather than place focus on specific misdeeds, it focuses instead on personal priorities, as elucidated by Chazal...
Gone to the Gorillas
The world has gone mad over the death of Harambe the gorilla. Had the child been harmed instead, there would be no similar outcry, as we know from similar incidents. What does this tell us about today’s priorities?
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Bechukosai 5776
BMG ‘Disappointed’ Court Cancelled $10M State Grant Trump Advisor Meets Jewish Groups in Flatbush Rabbi stabbed in Ukrainian synagogue by angry job-seeker Orthodox Rabbi Teaching Halakha Beyond the Shulkhan Arukh, Judaism Beyond the Commandments –...
The Last Word: The Master Knocks
by Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie “The day is short, the work is great, the workers are lazy, but the reward is great, and the master of the house is knocking [at your door].” Pirkei Avos...
Don’t Chop Down the Trees, We Need the Forest – We Need Chabad
I really misfired. My intentions were sincere, they were directed to constructive critique and they were, in my opinion, expressed quite gently and respectfully – yet they were not helpful in the overall scheme...
Addressing Dishonesty
[UPDATED] There are some writers whom you imagine will disagree in an appropriate and logical fashion, without straw men and without inspiring people to mock words of our greatest teachers. And sometimes you will be disappointed.
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Behar 5776
US House protects shechita and brit as religious freedoms A Shiur Like None Other Watch: Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef’s Critique of Those Who Think It Is a Mitzvah to Visit Meron Thousands Mourn...
Recent Comments