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This week we read the double parsha of Acharei Mos-Kedoshim. These two parshios combine for a total of seventy-nine mitzvos {commandments}–more than one eighth of… Read More »On One Foot

The Story “I love Yom Kippur” said Daniel to his grade 3 classmates. “I get to eat all the treats I want while my brother… Read More »Children Fasting on Yom Kippur

Nothing is as painful as the loss of a child. The wound it leaves in the heart of the parent is so deep, so jagged… Read More »Nothing Wasted

The second parsha in our reading this week is Parshas Kedoshim. “Be holy, because I am holy, Hashem your G-d.” It sounds like a tall… Read More »Do it Because I am Holy

THE POWER OF a moment. One second, life can be going in one direction, and the next, completely another direction. It can start all-time bad… Read More »In The Moment

QUESTION 57: How truthful must one be when talking to a shadchan (match-maker) – or anyone helping to find a shidduch (match) – about the… Read More »Truthfulness With A Shadchan

Dear Rabbi Travis, Does the Torah’s prohibition of “Distance yourself from falsehood” apply in a case where someone finds himself in a situation where he… Read More »Fear Induced Lies – Response to Question

“You should not eat on blood” (Vayikra 19,26). Rashi explains that this verse alludes to the prohibition of eating sacrifices before their blood has been… Read More »Practicing Sorcery

“BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OUR G-D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO HAST NOT MADE ME A WOMAN.” An introductory essay on one of the… Read More »Who Hast Not Made Me a Woman Part I

For seven days you shall eat Matzos, but on the preceding day you shall clear away all leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leaven… Read More »Now, Chew on That