A Wealth Tax in Jewish Tradition
There is talk in the U.S. about taxing the wealth of the super-rich. Without engaging in discussion about proper policy today, I would like to
There is talk in the U.S. about taxing the wealth of the super-rich. Without engaging in discussion about proper policy today, I would like to
At any given moment, many—if not most—of us may be thinking, “How will I get through this latest crisis?” It may be the political chaos
This article is a lightly edited transcript of a sichat mussar delivered in the Glueck Beis Midrash of Yeshiva University. The story of Yaakov Avinu’s
“When we come upstairs after 120, we will be asked, ‘Where is the Shulchan Aruch, the Mishnah Berurah?!’ Dirshu empowers us to have and realize
A society in which technology enables us to deal effortlessly with many of life’s difficulties raises the issue of the value of challenges and struggles.
Wednesday of this coming week is the yahrzeit of my mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Ita Singer, a”h. Many of you who know my father-in-law, Rabbi Singer, his
Yaakov endures a lifetime of confrontation and chaos. He grappled with his father-in-law, warred with the local rapists of Shechem, and, toward the end of
At the beginning of the Parshat Vayishlach (32:23) it states that Yaakov took his two wives, two handmaidens and 11 sons over the Yabok river.
Anyone who studies the life of Yitzchak is puzzled, even shocked, by one of the opening lines of this week’s parsha: (כח) וַיֶּאֱהַב יִצְחָק אֶת
In this week’s parsha, Vayishlach, Yaakov fought with an angel. From the same angel that he fought with, Yaakov insisted that he’d be given a
It has become growing tradition in recent years, as the masses stream to the town of Tchenger in Hungary for the yohrtzeit of the Menuchas
Great anticipation as senior gedolei Yisrael expected to attend and address lomdei Dirshu. A Dirshu convention is unique. Simply put, nothing can compare to it