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Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be – Yogi BerraTo the unreflective, memory is quaint; a nostalgic window upon a past experience that might evoke a momentary glance backward (and perhaps...

Parashat Vayechi 5768 Parashat Vayechi – If you will it, it is not a dream Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook – Mourning...

One of the tragedies which is commemorated by the fast on the Tenth of Tevet is the Septuagint, the translation of the Torah into Greek by seventy scholars. This translation was...

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...

“Biblical stories are in our present — in the cheder we cried when we learned of the sale of Yosef — and we rejoiced in his ascendancy to power. There was...

Parashat Vayigash 5768 PART ONE: Breaking Out of Our 4 Walls PART TWO: Man’s Best Efforts, God’s Decree PART ONE: Breaking Out of Our 4 Walls A year has past since...

Parashat Vayigash 5768 Parashat Vayigash – I Feel Your Pain Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook – Honoring Parents, Netilat Yadayim Shut She’eilat...

The Rema writes that it is proper to eat cheese at Chanukah because of the miracle that was wrought through milk, when Yehudit gave milk to the enemy leader to make...

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...

Parshat Miketz, Chanukah and Annapolis 5768 Part One: God’s Signature Part Two: A Wonderland Part One: God’s Signature Often Jewish history presents strange fellow travelers but no stranger than the trilogy...