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The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

Following the recent flotilla fiasco facing the IDF last week, Israelis are wondering: Is Everyone Crazy? How is it that only we can appreciate the missiles raining down from Gaza, even...

Fast days, with the exception of Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av, begin in the morning. Does that mean we can enjoy ourselves the night before? In particular, the Three Weeks, with...

A well known mishna frames our parsha – the classic section of the Korach dispute Any dispute which is for the sake of Heaven , will in...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

As we mentioned last week, Rav Natan of Breslav does not take the institution of gift-giving for granted. He finds two paradoxes in this practice. One was discussed last week; the...

Sometimes free is expensive. Just consider those free miles (with your annual credit card), that free laptop (with 20 membership signups) and free gas (with a new car and up to...

In a number of places in halakha, we find either leniencies or strictures based on the psychological assumption that “a person is panicked over his possessions”. For example, normally it is...