The Navi Chagai made great promises in his prophecies, urging us to build the second Beit Hamikdash. These include the nevuah that the second Mikdash

Rashi At Torah Academy of Bergen County, we recently discussed whether we wear a cap or a kippah to a ballgame based on an intriguing

Benefitting From Chillul Shabbat Many living on the east coast ask about their watching on Motzaei Shabbat, a baseball game being played on Shabbat on

Megillat Esther Not surprisingly, our guide to political involvement in a non-Jewish government is Megillat Esther. It teaches us when to include ourselves and when

A Beautiful Inquiry On Sunday, I received a beautiful halachic inquiry from a woman who converted through the rabbanut-recognized GPS system that morning. She counted

The 12 Lines It is well-known that a get (Jewish divorce document) is always 12 lines long. Rav Melech Schachter even told me that a

Marijuana Versus Alcohol Whenever someone asks a rabbi about the halachic priority of marijuana use, he cites Rav Moshe Feinstein (Teshuvot Igrot Moshe, Yoreh Deah

 Chizkuni’s Explanation of Jewish Suffering The Chizkuni to Devarim 4:32 makes a powerful insight. If one wonders, he writes, why the Jewish people are subject

Few Excuses There are precious few valid excuses to miss the upcoming NORPAC in-person mission to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 10. It is the

Submitting Torah Observance to a Test The Torah (Devarim 6:16) presents a fascinating prohibition to refrain from testing Hashem. Ramban (to Devarim 6:16) explains that

Small Numbers of Jews Judaism has the lowest number of adherents of all the world’s major religions (see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations). Our numbers are dramatically

Just as one cannot learn to drive, swim or perform surgery from reading a book, conversion candidates cannot understand how to experience Yom Tov by