Home For G-d
By Yochanan Gordon
Chazal in Midrash Tanchuma, Sh’mos, famously asserted, “Nisaveh Hakadosh Baruch Hu lihiyos lo dirah batachtonim,” G-d desired a dwelling place in the lowest realms of existence. The...
Shabbat Shabbaton: Is Yom Kippur Really The Holiest Shabbos of All?
By Rabbi Benzion Scheinfeld
An Exploration of the Nature of the Kedushat Hayom of Yom Kippur
For most of my life I have been under the impression that Yom Kippur is...
The Days Of Awe Are Upon Us
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
When these holy days are upon us, I’m immediately brought back to my childhood in Crown Heights, when I had the merit to daven...
A Post-October 7 Rosh Hashanah Machzor
The text of our Rosh Hashanah davening is immutable. These timeless words, hewn from Tanach, forged by Chazal, and imbued with elegance and gravitas by our mesorah, carry enduring...
The Shofar Teaches Us The Importance Of The Here And Now
By Rabbi Benny Berlin
Shofar blowing is one of the pinnacle parts of Rosh Hashanah. Even visually, it signifies the day. But why do we specifically blow a shofar shel...
Daf Yomi: Ta’anis In Teves
By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow
Now that Chanukah is over, we turn our attention to the somber day of Asarah B’Teves, a community-wide fast. Nevuchadnezar laid siege to Jerusalem on the...
Exploding Pagers, Exploding Memes
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
If you submitted the script to Hollywood, it would be rejected for being too outrageous and unbelievable. If you proposed it as a plan, it would...
Quicken Loans and the Issue of Ribis
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Agudas Yisroel recently published a Psak Din signed by leading Gedolim about the prohibition in borrowing money from Quicken Loans without a Heter Iskah. Among those...
The Core Of The Israel-Hamas War
By Yochanan Gordon
There has never been, nor will there ever be, peace between Israel and Hamas. The facts underlying the perennial struggle between the democratic, sovereign state of Israel...
Rosh Hashanah at a Time of War: How To Channel Our Fears
Rosh Hashanah’s only mitzvah is the blowing of the shofar. The Torah does not tell us much about this mitzvah. In fact, it mentions only two words: zichron (memory)...
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This is not a halachic question, but I need advice on how to handle a situation. Many years ago, we rented our basement to...
Rooster Or Hen?
It’s interesting that, considering I’m a humor writer who’d never planned on having a pet other than occasionally trying to keep alive the random...
Rabbis Issue a Clarion Call to Action: 36th Annual Chai Elul Siyum HaShas & 82nd Annual...
On September 24, 2024, the Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim (RAA/Igud) celebrated its 36th annual Chai Elul Siyum HaShas and 82nd annual dinner at the famed...