Legendary scholar, educator, author and historian, Rabbi Berel Wein’s rabbinic career spanned Chicago, Miami and the Orthodox Union, before he founded Congregation Bais Tefillah and
One of the young men from our yeshiva’s Young Professionals’ Initiative just went to Eretz Yisrael to learn in yeshiva. He had been working for
Note to the reader: The following dvar Torah was presented by the author last year at a siyum to mark her becoming a bat mitzvah.
לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I made pareve cucumber salad in a fleishig eino ben yomo (not used in 24
The year was 1984 and the place was BMG — Beis Midrash Gavoah in Lakewood. A special day of Tefilah was established for Iosif Berenshtein,
“Our Father, our King! For the sake of our forefathers who trusted in You, and whom You taught statutes of life, so too, be gracious
A number of years ago—on Chol Hamoed Pesach—the Staum family enjoyed an indoor rock climbing facility. The facility boasts numerous 40-foot climbs to the roof
בַּדֶּרֶךְ יְחִידִי וְ(הַ)מְפַנֶּה לִבּוֹ לְבַטָּלָה, הֲרֵי זֶה מִתְחַיֵּב בְּנַפְשׁוֹ: (אבות ג:ד) רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הַמְהַלֵּךְ בַדֶּרֶךְ וְשׁוֹנֶה וּמַפְסִיק מִמִּשְׁנָתוֹ וְאוֹמֵר, מַה נָּאֶה אִילָן זֶה וּמַה
דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לֵאמֹר בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם שַׁבָּתוֹן זִכְרוֹן תְּרוּעָה מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ (ויקרא כג:כד) “Speak to Bnei Yisroel and tell them:
Our parsha brings up the incident of the mekalel, the person who committed the atrocious and severe sin of blaspheming Hashem. How did he come
Movers once broke a keg of wine belonging to Rabbah bar bar Chana. He seized their cloaks, as restitution for his loss. They came before
After my many decades of counting, it is time to deal with this issue. Let us first look at the Acharonim. This is straightforward. The
