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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...

In our parsha, the spies were punished for not showing sufficient desire to enter Eretz Yisrael. Let us study one of the many halakhot which express the importance of moving here....

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...

It’s time for the annual summer Bamidbar depression – an unavoidable mindset created by reading a string of five very depressing parshiyot : five weeks marred by...

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...

Rav Natan of Breslav begins his discussion of the laws of gifts with a surprising question: why are gifts appropriate at all? While we may not find anything unusual or objectionable...

Sometimes free is expensive. Consider all those free miles (with your annual credit card), free laptop (with the purchase of) and free gas (with a new car and up to 10,000...

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...

Our parsha contains the special mitzva to the Kohanim to bless the people each day with the familiar three-part priestly blessing. (Bamidbar 6:22-27.) We often refer to this blessing as “nesiat...

It’s a Rambam-Ramban classic heavyweight duel. As the Torah introduces us to the nazir, the simple Jew who abstains from wine and grape byproducts, ritual contact with the dead and does...