Rabbi Sacks, zt’’l, had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book “Lessons in Leadership.” Ki Teitzei contains more
In honor of my younger son Hillel’s bar mitzvah, we explored a topic regarding which Hillel is quite passionate: the great debate concerning opening containers
There are very few storylines as dramatic or as harsh as the saga of a ben sorer u’moreh. A wayward adolescent boy exhibits preliminary signs
My great-uncle Meyer Thurm, z”l, was known for his caring heart, tzedakah and his honesty. His yahrzeit was a few weeks ago and I was
The past Lag BaOmer was one of those times when the eyes of the whole nation watched in tears the unimaginable consequences of the terrible
Parshat Ki Teitzei According to Josephus, there were 1.1 million Jews living in Yerushalayim in the year 66 CE, before the Romans destroyed Bayit Sheni
The organization of the second aliyah seems slightly odd. It begins by instructing that the body of an executed person be briefly publicly hung and
Sukkot 37b Loewenstein’s shtiebel on the second floor of the North London flat was packed tight, from wall to wall, that balmy Sukkot morning. Congregants
Sukkah 46 One of my favorite songs growing up was from Rechnitzer Rejects (vol 2), “Home on the Blatt,” sung to the tune of “Home
The word ממזר appears only two times in Tanach: at Deut. 23:3 and Zech. 9:6. According to our Sages it refers to a child who
Our parsha brings the mitzvah of hashavat aveida, returning a lost possession back to its owner: “You shall not see your brother’s ox or sheep
At the ceremony on the occasion of the dedication of the Beit Harav Kook and the Merkaz Harav flagship yeshiva of the religious Zionists, in
