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
I was surprised but not shocked to see the passing of Rav Nota Greenblatt, zt”l, described in last week’s Jewish newspapers in a small blurb.
A large Religious Zionist congregation in North America slightly amends the standard text of the blessing for the State of Israel authored by Rav Yitzchak
The iconic story of the mother and her seven sons recounted in Gittin 57b is well-known and often repeated. It is most certainly etched in
If you had to compress the teachings of Tanach into one simple sentence, that sentence would be “you reap what you sow,” or middah k’neged
It was one of the most critical issues with which I have dealt. It was a case of a woman who had married in a
We all feel a special connection to the Kotel HaMa’aravi. Even on very short trips to Eretz Yisrael, a visit to the Kotel is a
Why is so much of our liturgy and holy texts in Aramaic? When hearing a ketubah read aloud at a chuppah, we wonder why the
