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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

BS”D Volume 35, No. 21 22 Adar 5781 March 6, 2021 Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jules Meisler in memory of Jules’ father Irving Meisler… Read More »How to Remember

This week we read the parsha of Ki Tisa. After receiving the Torah, Bnei Yisroel {the Children of Israel}, thinking that Moshe had died, sought… Read More »Visions of Tefillin

The Holy One, blessed be He, acquired five possessions in His world. They are: (a) the Torah, (b) heaven and earth, (c) Abraham, (d) Israel,… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 10(a): Being Possessed With G-d – Part I

In the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf, Moshe’s mortality is transformed to immortality as — anthropomorphic as it may sound — he… Read More »Higher than Sinai

Hashem spoke to Moshe. “Go, descend. Your nation that you brought up from Egypt has degenerated… They have made themselves a molten calf…Hashem said to… Read More »Cancelling Leaders