AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE ROSH YESHIVA RAV REUVEN FEINSTEIN SHLITA It was a beautiful, sunny day, the perfect day to visit Camp Yeshiva of Staten Island, right down the road...
Q. I have almost finished learning a Masechta (volume of Talmud). May I slow down (i.e., learn other topics or in greater depth), so that I will be able to...
A rich person wanted to divorce his wife. The wife was really a great person and did not deserve to be divorced. The rich person came to his Rabbi and...
CRASH LANDING An airliner was having engine trouble, and the pilot instructed the cabin crew to have the passengers take their seats and get prepared for an emergency landing. A few...
In Masechtas Nedarim [81a], the Gemora cites a verse in Yirmiyah [9:11], “Mi ha-ish hechacham v’yavein es zos… al ma avda haaretz – Who is the man who is wise...
Haircuts and Music During the 3 Weeks This Year The period of mourning beginning on Shiva Asar B’Tamuz (The Three Weeks), is patterned off of the classical laws of Avelius...
The older I get the more I have come to believe that people can essentially be divided into two categories: connectors and dividers. Connectors look for commonalities, dividers focus on differences....
In Parashat Debarim Moshe recalls the battle Beneh Yisrael waged against the powerful kings Sihon and Og, which resulted in Beneh Yisrael’s conquest of these kingdoms’ territory. He then relates...
Had the people living in the era of the churban prayed and beseeched Hashem that the churban and the exile shouldn’t come to be, their prayers would have been answered...
It is that “time” again. The entire world is mired in an international health crisis which doesn’t distinguish between Jew and non-Jew- the virus impacts and infects everyone alike. Not...