torah

When relating the greatness of Jewish revelation, Moshe tells us something unique about our heritage. In fact, it is a powerful detail that separates us… Read More »Living Proof

QUESTION 25: BROWSING MAGAZINES Can you go to a magazine store and look at the magazines as long as you want without the intention of… Read More »Browsing Magazines

Friday Night THE REMARKABLE THING is how Parashas Massey and Sefer Bamidbar end reiterating the claim and the names of Bnos Tzelofchad. This is not… Read More »For the Love of God

He [Yosef] remembered what he had dreamt about them. “You are spies,” he said to them. (Bereshith 42:9) It is forbidden to deceive someone for… Read More »Practical Jokes

“[After the Temple was destroyed] tefillah takes the place of sacrifices. Therefore one must ensure that his prayers correspond to the service of a kohen… Read More »Dignified Dress

The Sages said: ‘[For] three sins a person is punished (lit., ‘it is collected from a person’) in this world, and he has no share… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 3(b) – Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part II

Rabbi Shimon said, three people who ate at the same table and did not speak words of Torah are as if they had eaten from… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 4(a): Body or Soul? Part I

This week’s Torah reading begins the oration by our teacher Moshe during the final months of his life. In this oration, he reviews the 40… Read More »Geography Lessons

Korah Alai Moed… He summoned an assembly against me … (Eicha 1:15) Somebody asked me this week why Tisha B’Av is called a Moed, like… Read More »A Great Day

All of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us, and let them spy out the Land.”[2] Much of the beginning… Read More »Haste Makes Chaos