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Friday Night IT USED TO be important to me to make Torah and science square with each other. When you are involved in outreach, the… Read More »By Invitation Only

So too anyone who bears a grudge against any Jew transgresses a negative prohibition, as it is stated, ‘And you shall not bear a grudge… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 8(b) – Who Are We? Part II

The story of Noah and the great flood actually began at the end of last week’s Torah portion. That is when G-d determined that the… Read More »Stop the Flow Before the Flood

Make for yourself an Ark (Teva) made of gopher wood; you shall make the Ark (Teva) with compartments, and you shall caulk it both inside… Read More »The Safest Place

The greater a person is or believes he or she is, the smaller the room for error in one’s life decisions. Had Noach been merely… Read More »A Higher Standard

This week we read Parshas Noach. Ten generations after the creation of Adam Harishon, the first man, the world has been corrupted. “Vatishaches ha’aretz lifnei… Read More »To Share in the Pain of Others

Noach was a tzadik; perfect in his generations. Noach walked with G-d.[1] By including the qualifier “in his generations,” the Torah plunges us into controversy.… Read More »Noach and Avraham

Over the course of the first 1500 years of world history, human and animal life on earth had degraded to the extent G-d determined that… Read More »Making It Perfect

The Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach, Seven Noachide Laws given to mankind are (1) Not to worship idols (2) Not to curse G-d (3) Not to… Read More »The Seven Noachide Laws

Rabbi Chanina ben (son of) Dosa said, anyone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom will endure. And anyone whose wisdom precedes his… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 11: Knowledge Without Fear