The Gemara’s stories are very terse, but extremely rich. Each time we delve into them, we can uncover more and more insights and teachings from

It was a very exciting visit to the Chabad community of Myrtle Beach to explore the possibility of creating an eruv. I had several interesting

There is a glaring contradiction in our Friday night beit knesset practices. On the one hand, at Arvit, we continue to say the “Bracha Achat

Halachic authorities have debated the permissibility of squeezing lemons into a liquid (such as tea) on Shabbat since the Rishonim. This issue is an interesting

A few weeks ago, I took my younger son Hillel for a post-bar mitzvah trip to Israel. The visit was very short, so we had

One of the Gemara’s most charming and well-known stories involves a non-Jew who sought to be converted on condition that he be appointed as Kohen

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Moshe Rabbeinu vs. The Malachim Shabbat 88b-89a presents a stunning interaction between Moshe Rabbeinu and the malachim, the Heavenly angels. The Gemara records (from the

Yoshiyahu HaMelech Rescues Torah Observance! What a dramatic question we posed in our Navi Shiur at TABC! We discussed the Teshuva movement led by the

  A Compelling Question Sometimes it takes a while to answer a very good question. In the spring of 2018 we were learning Megillat Rut

When I was a teenager, a wildly popular song included the following lyrics: “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; the

The Surface Explanation: Our Relationship With Shabbat It is one of the best-known stories of the Gemara—the story of Yosef Mokir Shabbat. As is typical