I. To Respond or Not To Respond? The Bible expresses two competing concerns about religious debates in successive verses. On the one hand, “Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest...
If Reuven has a seder kavua of learning in the morning may he be mevatel Torah to attend a bris milah? “Aseh docheh Lo Saseh” is a concept that we learn in the gemara in Yevamos, daf heh, amud bais. The gemara adds to...
I. Preaching and Change Rabbis speaking in the local language, e.g. German or English, was once denounced as forbidden but now is commonplace. Some people mistakenly conclude that if rabbis forbid...
Let me ask you my dear reader, What is the common denominator between the generation of the flood, the townspeople of the great metropolis of S’dom and Amorah, and the...
AH: You are telling people that you are going about this election as though it is a job interview. If this were a job interview, what would you say the...
How would you define a tzadik or a tzadekess? Rav Kahaneman, the Ponevezher Rav, would ask this question often in his lectures. His answer was very concise. A Tzadik has...
The Gemara in Brachos, daf heh, amud bais brings a story about Rav Huna. Rav Huna had four hundred barrels of wine that all turned sour and became vinegar. Reb Yehuda and the other chachamim visited Rav Huna and told him that...
God is just, merciful and fair. Why, then, are we told that saying something bad–opening our mouths to Satan–can cause bad things to happen? Why should a just God punish...
We recently learned in Daf Yomi in Sandhedrin, daf nun vov, amud bais that we learn about all of the zayin mitzvos bnei Noach from a posuk in this week’s...