May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Zevachim 99.
No human being who ever lived deserved entry into the Land of Israel more than Moshe. He had stoked the redemptive imagination of a band
The Rambam, Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Ovadia Yosef. This summarizes what many outside the Sephardic community think constitutes the corpus of Sephardic Halacha. Of
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This past year, I had the privilege to spend the year in Israel where I learned in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, commonly referred to as KBY.
I have previously written about several other letters of the Rambam: 1) his letter to the learned translator Samuel Ibn Tibbon, 2) his letter to
There are certain phrases, motions and actions that instantly become catchphrases. They may have been non-existent one day, and then the next day everyone seems
