By Rabbi Hershel Schachter Editor’s note: This series is reprinted with permission from “Insights & Attitudes: Torah Essays on Fundamental Halachic and Hashkafic Issues,” a

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin Throughout the initial years of our desert travels, Moshe’s levelheaded and steady leadership stabilized the state of our Jewish nation. Our

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By Rabbi Reuven Taragin אני מאמין באמונה שלימה שהבורא יתברך שמו הוא בורא ומנהיג לכל הברואים והוא לבדו עשה עושה ויעשה לכל המעשים. Boreh u’Manhig

By Rabbi Judah Mischel Reb Yanki Tauber related a ma’aseh—a story, about the Lubavitcher Rebbe: “A group of highschool students once came to see the

By Rabbi Neil N. Winkler Parshat Korach “Moshe v’Aharon b’chohanav uShmuel bekorei shmo … ” (Tehillim 99, 6) The psalmist describes how the righteous—like Moshe,

By Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim A friend of mine was in a post-high school yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael for boys needing inspiration to lead a Torah

By Rabbi Dr. Joshua Waxman A common theme in this column is that two people can have the same name, and we need to disambiguate

By Shira Sedek In parshat Korach, we can see the recurring cycle of making one of the mistakes that Adam and Chava made. While Adam

By Rabbi Daniel Mann/Eretz Hemdah לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I thought that one should learn a little in shul

By Sivan Rahav-Meir Today all of us know how to explain Korach’s mistake. It’s terribly easy today to sit back and explain why most of

By Rabbi Dr. Daniel Friedman For many centuries, the Land of Israel lay barren. While Jews and non-Jews continued to inhabit the country in small