Three Mets, including rookie first baseman Pete Alonso, were selected to the All-Star Game, this year.Alonso will also be one of the participants in the Home Run Derby on July 8. Entering Sunday’s game, Alonso ranks second in the majors...
HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU THAT WHAT YOU ARE READING IS TRUE? In his book “Other People’s Money and How Bankers Use It,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote, “Publicity is...
DO WE SAY G-D’S NAME CORRECTLY? I. G-d’s Grammar In the early seventeenth century, scholars who were both grammarians and Kabbalists debated the proper way to pronounce G-d’s name. The Tetragrammaton (4-letter...
If I use a Milchig or Fleishig utensil in a Pareve container did I make the container Milchig/Fleishig? If its a liquid that’s kept there for 24 hours then it would...
When the scouts returned from Eretz Yisrael and reported about their findings, they told the nation that the land is “Eretz Ochelet Yoshebeha” – “a land that consumes its inhabitants”...
While the halacha that a kiddush Hashem b’rabim must take place in the presence of an “edah” is derived from a possuk in Emor (Vayikra 22:32), the definition of the...
It was not a good scenario. The twelve spies returned from their forty-day sojourn to the Land of Canaan and ten of them were not happy campers. They left as an...
In Bamidbar, Perek Yud Gimmel, posuk chof the posuk tells us that Moshe told the Meraglim to strengthen themselves and take from the fruits of Eretz Yisroel. The Sefer Pri Haaretz...
The episode of the spies was one of the most tragic in the entire Torah. Who sent them and to what end is not entirely clear. In this week’s parsha,...
As summer approaches there is an annual migration to our favorite vacation spots. In the tristate area, over a half million people make the annual pilgrimage to the Catskills summer...