The more I study the Torah, the more conscious I become of the immense mystery of Exodus 33. This is the chapter set in the

In a typical yeshivah shiur addressing the topic of mishloach manot, one will most likely hear about the dispute between the Terumat HaDeshen and the

Four years ago, the world shifted. Beginning in March 2020, humanity suffered a worldwide pandemic which took close to 7 million lives. The Covid-19 outbreak

I’m amazed to watch young children who seem oblivious to conversations around them suddenly chime in right on queue. My son-in-law, Chaim, was singing a

Our last piece addressed the importance of our intentions. The mishna at the beginning of Avot’s second perek relates to another aspect of our psyche—our

There is a story that I regularly repeat at our family Pesach Seder. It is hard to repeat it without crying. I share it with

וַאֲנִי הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי אִתּוֹ אֵת אָהֳלִיאָב בֶּן אֲחִיסָמָךְ לְמַטֵּה דָן וּבְלֵב כָּל חֲכַם לֵב נָתַתִּי חָכְמָה וְעָשׂוּ אֵת כָּל אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִךָ (שמות לא:ו) “I have

Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the great yeshivas of Lithuania, Rav Shimon Schwab was a talmid chacham and traditionalist interpreter of the path

For a number of years I was the general studies principal of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli in New Windsor, New York. During that time, the students

Although there are slight variations (depending on the source), the timeline surrounding the sin of the golden calf starts with Moshe ascending Mt. Sinai on

Regarding marriage, my father once suggested a novel interpretation of the opening mishna of Bava Metzia (2a). שְׁנַיִם אוֹחֲזִין בְּטַלִּית—“Two people are ‘holding’ by the

Despite the severity of the sin of the Golden Calf, it’s important to notice that God only becomes angry on the day after it is