When the mayor entered the court for his divorce hearing, the judge stood up. “Take a seat, Your Honor,” the judge said to the mayor

After Nadav and Avihu were punished with death because they showed too much familiarity by eating and drinking in God’s presence, Aharon and each Kohen

Although the plague of tzara’as shows up on the skin, it is not symptomatic of a physical ailment, but of a spiritual one. We are

As a child, I always wanted to know what my father’s chin looked like. But I never got to see it. From the time I

“Be careful,” my father warned. “Don’t run around the house with that sharp thing in your hand. Slow down. You could hurt somebody.” “Old peoples’

Makkot 4a, 5a. Navot did nothing wrong. His only “sin” was that he owned a vineyard that King Achav wanted. But the king had no

Why have there been Jews who have chosen death rather than shave their beards or change their clothes? If our persecutors order us to violate

The Washington sniper who shot and killed people in Washington, by pointing the barrel of his gun through a hole in the trunk of his

My father-in-law, a successful businessman with a law degree, would say that he studied the law in order to stay out of the courts. What

You put your hand into the pocket of your pants that just came back from the cleaners and you pull out the receipt you have

Once the incriminating testimony of witnesses in a capital case is found by the Beit Din to be admissible and to prove the elements of