‘Pihah Patcha Be-Chochmah’
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, the great 18th century Italian Jewish thinker, kabbalist, poet and writer, famously opens his classic ethical treatise “Mesilat Yesharim” with the
January 13, 2025
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, the great 18th century Italian Jewish thinker, kabbalist, poet and writer, famously opens his classic ethical treatise “Mesilat Yesharim” with the
In the late 1980s, my revered teacher, Rabbi Yehuda Amital, zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, a leading Hesder yeshiva and one of the
This is a lightly edited text of the Shabbat drasha delivered by Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot at Congregation Netivot Shalom, Parshat Noach, October 21, 2023 In
Disclaimer: Please accept my apologies if the title of this essay creates an expectation that it will express a political point of view on the
Close to 30 years ago, I was invited to participate in a regional convention of New Jersey NCSY in one of the upstate New York
The RCBC has, for many decades, served as an umbrella organization of Orthodox rabbis that has helped establish and develop the physical and spiritual infrastructure
The religious and spiritual identity of Modern Orthodox adolescents and young adults in our community are shaped by their experiences in various educational, familial and
190p style=”text-align: justify;”>In early January, Rabbi Daniel Alter wrote a piece, “School Calender Wars” (January 4, 2018), discussing the push-pull struggle between various school populations
“Orot,” by Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, translated with footnotes and introductions by Rabbi Bezalel Naor (Maggid Books, 2015) Thirty-five years ago, as a young
