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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...

One prominent feature of business halacha is the variety of laws relating to doing business with a Torah scholar. If we examine these laws carefully, we will discern a number of...

Context As Parshat Emor continues with its description of the festival cycle, we encounter a holiday shrouded in mystery. A series of enigmas surround both the festival of Shavuot, introduced for...

Context The Torah obligates a landowner to a series of five mandatory matanot la’evyonim, “gifts to the poor.” Four of these obligations are recorded in Parshat Kedoshim: Leket: Stalks of grain...

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...

One of the most prominent customs practiced today on Purim is to dress up in costumes, and this custom is mentioned already in the Rishonim. The Rema mentions that it is...

Everybody but Chazal knows that the aseret hadibrot (Ten Commandments) appear only twice in the Torah (Yitro and Va’etchanan). In the sharp analysis of R. Levi (1), a third, more eclectic sighting can also...

The Torah forbids us from having chametz in our possession from noon on Pesach eve until the end of the holiday. But since the Torah states, “no chametz shall be seen...

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 metzora is quarantined. He must stay out of all the camps . In this regard, he occupies a unique status. No other personality experiences such total quarantine....