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QUESTION 77: The municipal parking meter requires that you add money to a magnetic stripe ticket for as long as you expect to stay. If… Read More »Leaving Magnetic Stripe Parking Garage Ticket

While the shaliach tzibbur repeats the Shemoneh Esrei, there may be some people who are still in the middle of their silent recitation. These individuals… Read More »A Chazzan’s Kedusha

In Parshas Vayakhel, all of the vessels of the mishkan and the mishkan itself are fashioned. Pekudei, completes the Sefer of Shemos. Pekudei, meaning counting,… Read More »Struggle as an End in Itself

When the people saw that Moshe was late in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron, and they said to him: “Come… Read More »In Deep Deep Trouble

Anyone who occupies himself in the [observance of the] Torah in order to receive reward or avoid punishment is [considered as] one who occupies himself… Read More »Chapter 10, Law 5 – Preparing for the Secret

QUESTION 76: DOWNLOADING AND COPYING MUSIC I argue with people about the ethics of downloaded music files from the Internet. I say that downloading songs… Read More »Downloading and Copying Music

There are particular points in the services where we are invited to join the communal recitation of the prayers. Barechu, which is recited after the… Read More »Invitations

“Is there a moon?” This question, asked in Yiddish, would circulate around the Rebbe’s shalosh seudos tisch, the final meal of Shabbos, every month. Tze… Read More »Chapter One Hundred Forty-Eight

“And Yaakov was a straightforward man who sat in tents.” (Bereshith 25:27) “Tam,” the Hebrew term for straightforward used in this verse, conjures an image… Read More »Truth Tested

This dvar Torah was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1153 Parshas Ki Sisa –… Read More »More Than Just a Play on Words