The six weeks in January, during which we read the Torah portions recounting our slavery and redemption from Egypt, are known as the period of

Rav Judah Mischel tells the following story about the Lubavitcher Rebbe: In May 1957, the small fledgling community in Kfar Chabad—founded by Russian Lubavitcher immigrants—was

Two Jews in a train station were waiting on the platform for their scheduled journey. A “maskil” stood reading the daily newspaper, while his fellow

It happened in the late 1950s. But first, a brief description of a problem that really has nothing to do with us. It happens to

Ben Zakkai appears in Sanhedrin 40a, but I don’t know who he is. The Mishna states that whoever increases in bedikot—examinations of witnesses about tangential

Nowhere in Tanach is anyone counting the year from creation. What is the origin of this counting method? As further background, if one looks at

Personal integrity is a basic value to which our Sages attached great value, even referring to it as miyesodei hanefesh, a foundation of the soul

 Parshat Vaera The navi Yechezkel—whose words we read this week as our haftarah, lived in Babylonia during the years preceding and following churban bayit, the

A few years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a week in Eretz Yisroel with our bechor, Shalom, in honor of his bar

Sanhedrin 5a, 88b During the days of the Sanhedrin, the judiciary was structured in a three-tier system. The סנהדרין גדולה / Great Sanhedrin of 71

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I learned that there is no bishul akum (the rabbinical prohibition on food cooked by

עַתָּה שְׁלַח הָעֵז אֶת־מִקְנְךָ וְאֵת כׇּל־אֲשֶׁר לְךָ בַּשָּׂדֶה כׇּל־הָאָדָם וְהַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר־יִמָּצֵא בַשָּׂדֶה וְלֹא יֵאָסֵף הַבַּיְתָה וְיָרַד עֲלֵהֶם הַבָּרָד וָמֵתוּ׃ “Now, order your livestock and everything