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In many places in the Talmud, we find practices forbidden because they are “the ways of the Emorite” (DARKEI EMORI). In most cases these are customs that seem like silly superstitions,...

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...

View pdf – Parashat Ki Tisa 5768 Kindly take a moment to study MISHNAS CHAYIM in the merit of יצחק ליב בן שמואל ע”ה a fellow Jew who passed away with...

Parashat Ki Tisa 5768 Were it necessary to designate parashat Ki Tisa by one word, I would choose “embarrassment” – embarrassment caused by the avoda zara performed by many of the...

I recently received the following email: A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick, and would put it on in the washroom. That was fine, but after they put...

Parashat Ki Tisa 5768 Davening in Maran Ha-Rav Kook’s House (known as Beit Ha-Rav) Eat Right! Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook –...

It is a mitzva to gladden the bride and groom; one way this is customarily done is by dancing before them and attending to their needs. Most of us are accustomed...

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...

Parashat Ve’Ata Tetzaveh 5768 I am writing this week’s divrei Torah in the lobby of a magnificent hotel on the shores of the Dead Sea, that ancient area of Sodom and...

View pdf – Parashat Tetzaveh 5768 Kindly take a moment to study MISHNAS CHAYIM in the merit of יעקב משה בן חיים ע”ה a fellow Jew who passed away with no...