Heads I Win; Tails You Lose
The Tashlich ceremony we just performed on Rosh Hashanah had some added poignancy this year. The Matteh Moshe, as cited by Rabbi Daniel Sherman of
The Tashlich ceremony we just performed on Rosh Hashanah had some added poignancy this year. The Matteh Moshe, as cited by Rabbi Daniel Sherman of
We are still within the year of mourning for the losses that began on October 7 and continue on all too many tragic days, during
The greatest tractate in the Talmud in terms of pagination (Bava Batra, at “176” pages—actually, 175, starting at page 2) begins (on the back of
One of the classic approaches to our behavior that should guide us at all times is to avoid insulting each other. The Talmud says, “Kol
Notwithstanding the United Nations Security Council vote of this past Monday, Shushan Purim, whose full or even partial compliance was still far from guaranteed as
The Talmud was written, organized and compiled in a different era, but many of its lessons are timeless. Many of its examples may seem inapplicable
This article takes no position as to the merits of the accusations against former president Donald Trump or against district attorney Fani Willis. For Americans
In the days of the Talmud, and in our own day, an ordinary instance of theft is assumed to generally result in the ye-ush or
It might seem counterintuitive to suggest that the Daf Yomi the Shabbat before Chanukah this year was particularly relevant since it is well known that,
Sometimes the Daf Yomi seems relevant to the news of the day. Now is a time when the whole tractate of the Talmud the students
It was the happiest of times, it was the unhappiest of times. It was Simchat Torah, the happiest day of the year, and the only
I had an opportunity to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event at an international conference – the conferral of the Deso Weiss Award to my wife, Dr.