Rami Strosberg, 42, made aliyah from White Plains in 2019, after spending a pilot year with his family in Beit Shemesh. He grew up in
Reviewer: Ben Rothke I thought of the saying, “Generals always fight the last war,” as I read “The Six Days of Creation: The Garden of
Chapter 5 Summary: Yaffa resents the fact that Ari and his family are leaving her with all the work of getting ready for the party.
Learn the words in Hebrew to figure out the joke below: Bank manager—מְנַהֵל בַּנְק It’s nothing—זֶה כְּלוּם Look at—מַבִּיטִים From below—מִלְּמַטָּה He is cleaning—מְנַקֶּה Windows—חַלּוֹנוֹת
When I first started working at Bottom Line, the publishing company that hired me in 1995, I was given the title of director of alternate
In recent weeks, we have been inundated with headlines of incidents, occurrences, activities and statements that, for the most part, clearly constitute chillul Hashem. Yet
In the first verse of this week’s Parsha, Vaera, two different names of Hashem are used. It says, “and Elohim spoke to Moshe and said
A Glaring Omission The omission of Shevet Shimon from the Shevatim blessed in parshat VeZot HaBracha screams for an explanation. Rashi (to Devarim 33:7) and
Editor’s note: This series is reprinted with permission from “Insights & Attitudes: Torah Essays on Fundamental Halachic and Hashkafic Issues,” a publication of TorahWeb.org. The
One of the primary reasons we care about which Tanna or Amora said what, is as follows. We assume that his opinion, worldview and halachic
וַיְדַבֵּר משֶׁה לִפְנֵי ה’ לֵאמֹר הֵן בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא שָׁמְעוּ אֵלַי וְאֵיךְ יִשְׁמָעֵנִי פַרְעֹה וַאֲנִי עֲרַל שְׂפָתָיִם: (שמות ו:יב) “And Moshe spoke before Hashem saying:
Jews came from far and wide to the modest Bnei Brak apartment of Rav Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, zt”l, the Steipler Gaon, to consult and discuss
