לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I was at an event on Chanukah at which someone lit candles and sang the

Not many parshiyot are named after individuals. What was so unique about Yitro that he merited to have a parasha referred to by his name?

There is absolutely nothing important enough to make us overlook the pain of others. Our parsha presents the most important and transformative event in human

We’re told Yitro heard all God did for Moshe and for His people, how He took them out from Egypt in a way that was

The beginning of our parsha lists Moshe Rabbeinu’s two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, and also explains why those names were chosen. The name Gershom was

Even the Washington sniper would likely be acquitted in a court of law bound by the Jewish laws of criminal evidence. There were no witnesses

Sanhedrin 49a, the Daf Yomi studied on the day that Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet with President Trump

וַיָּבֹא יִתְרוֹ חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה וּבָנָיו וְאִשְׁתּוֹ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּר אֲשֶׁר־הוּא חֹנֶה שָׁם הַר הָאֱלֹקים׃ וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֲנִי חֹתֶנְךָ יִתְרוֹ בָּא אֵלֶיךָ וְאִשְׁתְּךָ וּשְׁנֵי בָנֶיהָ עִמָּה (שמות

 A great chesed that Hashem did for Bnei Yisrael was to count the shibud Mitzrayim from the day Yitzchak was born. Therefore, it wasn’t until

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha states in a Mishna (Sanhedrin 56a) that, during a trial for blaspheming, the witnesses are asked to use an appellation of

During the last few years, I have perused the advertisements in our community’s wonderful weekly publications. Based on those advertisements, I have come to a

The noun חיל (chayil) appears over 200 times in Tanach. It has a few different meanings: Army: See, e.g., Exodus 14:28, “chail Pharaoh” (army of