The Mitzvah Of Mishloach Manos
To some, the most important question of the halachos of mishloach manos is whether one is permitted to eat on Purim day before one has fulfilled the mitzvah or...
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
By R' Chaim Bruk
This Shabbos, Parashas Bamidbar, is within the Shloshet Yemei Hagbalah, the three days in which Am Yisrael prepared for the original Shavuot at Har Sinai and...
The Boyaner Rebbe’s Hadlakah for Lag B’Omer
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Rabbi Yair Hoffman: Shalom Aleichem and thanks for the interview. Generally, Knesset members are very busy but with the coronavirus isolations, I imagine you have a...
The Way It Is: Harvesting Our Blessings
By Hannah Berman
As children in school, we were taught that this time of year marks the start of the wheat harvest and the end of the barley harvest. I...
Bagel Store: Pesach at Risk
By Larry Gordon
It is three weeks away, and Pesach as many once knew it might be at risk. This year seemed to be featuring a greater and more diverse...
18 Things You Should Know About Simchas Torah
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It seems that there are a lot of people that are at a bit of a loss as to what Simchas Torah is all...
The a-MAY-zing Purim Mesiba
On erev Ta’anis Esther, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held their annual Purim mesibah, with a pizza dinner, live music, a talent competition, a costume contest, and a Purim shpiel compliments...
Chanukah: Rabbinic or Biblical, Part 2
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa’aretz Institute
Last week we discussed Chanukah and 25 Kislev. We demonstrated how the Greeks defiled the Sanctuary on 25 Kislev and in Chaggai’s time the...