20 May ONE BITE OF A MITZVAH – WHAT DAVE PORTNOY GOT WRONG

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Dave Portnoy is a s u c c e s s f u l businessman with a large following online. He sold the company he founded, Barstool Sports, for $500 million, and bought it back a few years...

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20 May BEFORE THE INK DRIED: TRACING THE TORAH’S JOURNEY FROM SPEECH TO SCRIPT

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The reading of Parashat Behar comes at a perfect time, just before Shavuot. The first Rashi teaches us how the Torah was given to our nation, offering many insights into what is considered the most important event in...

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20 May DATING AND RELATIONSHIP ADVICE

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Dear Rabbi and Shira, I am dating an Instagram influencer. She’s sweet, beautiful, and “geschikt.” It might sound amazing but the problem is my life is not my own anymore. Whenever we...

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20 May KRIAH UPON SEEING YERUSHALAYIM AND THE KOSEL HAMARAVI

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In Order to Live We live in world today where it is very hard to real- ize what we are missing by not having the Bais Hamikdosh around. We get to comfortable with hour houses etc and are not really...

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20 May CAN YOU TEACH TORAH TO AI?

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The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) raises new and sometimes unexpected halachic questions. Among them is whether it is permissible to teach Torah to an AI. On the one hand, what could be wrong with it? After all,...

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20 May SPECIAL SHAVUOS RECIPES:

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BAKED COD WITH LEMON & CAPERS INGREDIENTS: 4 cod fillets, each 6 ounces 1 lemon 1 teaspoon chicken-flavored soup consume powder 1 cup hot tap water 1 tablespoon butter, softened 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 4 teaspoons capers, rinsed and drained DIRECTIONS: This light fish meal...

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20 May BECHUKOTAI: WORKING INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING

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There is a halachah which, at first glance, does not seem to have any practical relevance to us, but in truth, as the Vilna Gaon explained, conveys a vitally important lesson for each and every person. The halachah...

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20 May BEHAR BECHUKOSAI: MISERY LOVES COMPANY

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Parshas Behar contains both the mitzvah of the Shmitah [Sabbatical] year and the mitzvah of the Yovel [Jubilee] year. The Yovel year follows seven of the seven- year Shmitah cycles. This 50th year was basically an extra year of...

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20 May WHY IS SHAVUOS DIFFERENT

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As we draw nearer to the conclusion of our countdown of sefira, our thoughts are turning more and more to the culmination of these seven weeks of waiting, namely Shavuos. And as we make our preparations for the...

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20 May BECHUKOSAI: “THE PREPARATION FOR A MITZVAH IS GREATER THAN THE MITZVAH.”

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Tzaddikim said that the preparation for a mitzvah is greater than the performance of the mitzvah. Proof of this concept is that Chazal (Tanchuma, Emor 2) tell us that the four days after Yom Kippur, we don’t have any aveiros....

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