In Rav Tendlers’s long teaching career, I was among his last students. I didn’t know Rav Tendler for long but the zman I spent in
( www.Collive.com ) Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a rav in Monsey who was a professor of Jewish medical ethics and a professor of biology as well
Excerpted from the original, which can be found at rabbisacks.org, along with footnotes. Are we naturally good or naturally bad? On this, great minds have
This article was first published in TABC’s Kol Torah and is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Stunning! Just stunning! The parallels between
Parshat Noach Years ago, in my shul in the Bronx, New York, my father, a”h, would stand by the bimah during the Torah reading and,
In this week’s parsha, a relatively famous Gemara mentioned by Rashi prompts additional thought and consideration. Commenting on the Torah’s description of Noach as a
The first Mishna (Rosh Hashanah 2a) states that the first of Nisan is the Rosh Hashanah for kings, and Rav Chisda (a third-generation Amora, head
Perhaps the most under-appreciated honor one can receive in shul is to do hagbaha, raising the Torah for the entire congregation to see. Some people
I am always fascinated by words that have disparate meanings but share a common root. For example, the root לחם means both “bread” and “fight,”
One of the great things about being a writer is that people share stories with you they’d like others to hear. It’s an opportunity to
The note was written on an unusually sized piece of paper. About 6 inches wide and 4 inches long, it was folded in half and
The receptive history of the Tower of Babel story far outshines its mere nine-verse presence in the Hebrew Bible. The narrative has been a feature
