Minhagim like waiting 6 hours between eating meat & milk. Can they be changed? Minhagim should not be changed. Once you start changing family customs, you are on a slippery slope. What really protects...
The Torah in Parashat Ekeb (8:10) introduces the Misva of Birkat Ha’mazon – the obligation to recite a series of special Berachot after eating a certain quantity of bread. The Gemara in Masechet Berachot (48b) teaches us the origin...
“V’achalta v’savata, u’veirachta es HaShem...
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards some are stronger in the broken places.” -- Ernest Hemingway Broken The simple reading of the story (recorded twice in Torah, in Shemot, and then again in Devarim, in this week’s parsha) goes...
The Mitzvah There is a great mitzvah for one to be involved with making shidduchim between a boy and girl. Hashem was the first shadchan in the world who made the shidduch between Adom and Chavah. The Chozeh from Lublin is...
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...
In Parashat Va’et’hanan, Moshe Rabbenu recalls the event of Ma’amad Har Sinai, when Hashem spoke to Beneh Yisrael at Mount Sinai, and pronounced the Aseret Ha’dibberot. The final of these ten commands is Lo Tachmod – “You shall not...
Honor your father and mother, as the L-rd your G-d has commanded you, so that you may live long. (Devarim 5:16) Why should we honor our fathers and mothers? The Torah gives us one reason in Parashas Shemos (20:12),...
INGREDIENTS: 8 chicken bottoms – I used only the thighs feel free to use whatever pieces you prefer. 1.5 pounds of baby potatoes, cut in half 1 lemon, juiced 1 orange, juiced 1 tablespoon mustard 1/4 cup...
With great relief, we’ve arrived at Shabbos Nachamu, 5785. The days of mourning are behind us and we experience a Shabbos Nachamu, a Shabbos of comfort, which falls this year on the very happy day of t’u b’Av, the...