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Question: In my youth I was irreligious, and on one occasion I, together with a friend of mine, stole from a warehouse two doors. Since then I have done Teshuvah, and...

The gemara describes a brief ceremony which a person should perform if he has a distressing dream: “Rebbe Yochanan said, One who sees a dream and his soul is somber… should...

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...

After an initial burst of Moshe’s positive message, Bnei Yisrael are bitterly disappointed with the results. Pharaoh increases their workload and makes their lives even more miserable. Hashem thus delivers via...

The Shulchan Arukh states that we should make a blessing after any Divine salvation (OC 219). However, we also find that it is proper after such salvation to make some kind...

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...

This Shabbat, we begin leining a new Sefer, Sefer Shemot, which begins a new story, a new saga that begins with B’nei Yisroel in exile in Egypt. What is going on...

“We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt” (Deut. 6:21). We were slaves to Pharaoh, not Pharaoh’s slaves. The former would be only a juridic-social description; the Jews belonged to Pharaoh legally,...

Moshe is an unwilling leader. Rather than campaigning for the position, he argues the counter. In the end, he loses his argument with God (a fairly predictable conclusion) and emerges as...

Our Sages instructed that instances of joy should include remembrances of the destruction of the Temple, to remind us that our joy is not complete. When we build a house we...