A middle-aged bachelor once came to the Steipler Gaon, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, and complained, “I thought everybody has a bashert, the other half of

An integral part of rabbinic education is called “shimush”—on-the-job practical training. Typically, a junior rabbi will follow a senior rabbi around for a few years,

Rabbi Meir of Premishlan would get up early each morning and make his way up the mountain next to his village to purify himself in