Does the prohibition against washing dirty clothes on Chol Ha-Mo’ed, the intermediate days of the holiday, still apply today when doing laundry is relatively quick and easy?1 In theory, washing laundry always should be allowed on Chol Ha-Mo’ed. Generally speaking, simple...
I. Teshuvah and Nineveh C o n v e n t i o n a l wisdom has it that the book of Yonah is about the power of teshuvah, repentance. But if that is the case, why...
As we approach a string of three three-day yamim tovim, people are thinking about their hygiene and comfort, including showering and brushing teeth. I will discuss here the longstanding debate about the permissibility of brushing teeth on Shabbos and...
Many rabbis use the High Holiday sermons as an opportunity to showcase their talents and to showcase crucial ideas and themes. Considering the large crowd, rabbis may spend months preparing just the right combination of information and inspiration. In other...
This year, many people are going to try to learn lessons about how to do teshuvah from artificial intelligence (AI). I am going to go in the other direction and discuss how AI shows the wrong way to...
I. AI and Unemployment Predictions vary widely about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment. All agree that AI will replace some jobs, particularly those open to the automation of processes. The critical question is whether AI will become a...
I. The Cost of Secular Education The high cost of yeshiva tuition remains a significant challenge to many in the community. Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises a potential solution: it can reduce costs while simultaneously improving the education. Personalized instruction...
OpenAI recently released ChatGPT-5, which faced a number of public challenges. One of its features is that users can now choose from five preset Artificial Intelligence (AI) “personalities.” The list of personalities includes cheerful and adaptive; thoughtful and supportive; exploratory...
I. AI and Transformation Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world and already beginning to transform the workplace, a process that is widely expected to be dramatic. Will Torah study face the same fate? Some anticipate that AI, once it...
I. AI Authorship Is it permissible to study Torah from a sefer, a text of Torah scholarship, written by artificial intelligence (AI)? There are different ways an AI could author a sefer. For our purposes, we can divide...