Throughout the ages, there have been different practices regarding keeping tzitzis tucked into pants or out. In addition, Chassidim wear their tzitzis garment over their shirt, while Ashkenazim wear it under the shirt. Sefardim do not keep their tzitzis out, while many...
I. AI as a Human Tool Lately, people are rightly debating the moral and philosophical questions raised by Artificial Intelligence (AI). We need to keep one point firmly in mind and all other conclusions follow: AI is a...
Parashat Shelach is famous for the story of the meraglim – the spies sent by Moshe Rabbenu to scout the land. They returned with a frightening report, insisting that Beneh Yisrael were incapable of capturing the country, and...
HOW DOES ONE DETERMINE WHAT BRACHA TO MAKE ON A PRODUCT? If it’s not obvious, you have to know the ingredients that are used to make the product and you have to understand the processes used to make the product. Without both...
We read in Parashat Behaalotecha of the formal consecration of the Leviyim as G-d’s special servants who would work in the Mishkan. This process included the offering of sacrifices – specifically, one bull as an Ola (burnt- offering), and...
We all have memories of firsts. For a child, it may be something as simple as opening a brand-new box of Crayolas. The wow of seeing the crayons seamlessly lined up, with their pointy...
Open-Mindedness Much has been written about the apparent absence in our society of passion directed toward any ideal beyond our personal needs and pleasures. Nothing in the contemporary secular conversation calls on us to give up or sacrifice anything truly valuable...
Recently, Pope Leo XIV and President Trump found them- selves on opposite sides of another major issue, this time, artifi- cial intelligence. In his new encyclical, Mag- nifica Humanitas, a 42,300-word letter ad- dressed to the world’s 1.4 billion...
After the remarkable capture of Beaufort Castle in Lebanon—a symbolic stronghold long associated with Hezbollah—the bravery and determination of Israeli soldiers once again came into focus. Alongside the military achievement, an earlier discussion we wrote about during a previous escalation on...
Dear Rabbi and Shira, My wife came from a frum household and prefers to cover her hair with a teichel, however she doesn’t cover all her hair and half of her...