Part II This past June, I was honored to lead TABC’s 22nd annual voluntary post-finals Torah learning. It was deeply moving to see 25 talmidim

Part I This past June, I was honored to lead TABC’s 22nd annual voluntary post-finals Torah learning. It was deeply moving to see 25 talmidim

Taanit 24a quietly presents the recipe for educational success. The Gemara tells of an area suffering from famine. In desperation, the community enlisted Rav, the

The Beth Din of America recently released a decision concerning payment for a son’s shana bet (second year) of Torah learning in an Israeli yeshiva

Rephael Tzvi Benguigui Tracy and Moshe Benguigui named their new son “Rephael Tzvi” in part after “Rav Rephael Ankawa,” a great Moroccan rabbi. Not only

Rabbi Zeira’s 100 Fasts Daf Yomi participants recently learned an astounding report about Rabbi Zeira (Bava Metzia 85a). When this great (and colorful) Amora made

North American Kashrut Professionals: 115 to 120 Halachic absorption (beli’ah) occurs only when the liquid is so hot that it makes the hand recoil (yad

  Yibum Devarim 25:4-11 teaches that when two brothers are alive at the same time, and one dies without children, the wife is not allowed

Recently, I administered a get (Jewish divorce) for a less affiliated Jewish woman who was already civilly divorced for many years. She delayed obtaining a

The Torah in parshat Kedoshim and parshat Emor records Hashem’s prohibition for men to destroy their facial hair and round the corners of their head—לֹא