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Parshat Vayishlach 5768 Parshat Vayishlach – “I Buried Her on the Way”  Text Message Responsa  Stories of Rabbeinu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook – Disparaging Torah Scholars, The...

MAARIV As Yaakov is going from Be’er Sheva to Charan, the Torah tells us that he “reached the place”. Rashi explains that this refers to “reaching out” in prayer, and that...

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...

Sipping an ice-blended white chocolate dream in the cholov yisrael Coffee Bean in November makes it hard for a California Jew to consider the imperiled state of the Jew in exile....

Parshat Vayetzei 5768 Part One: Mi Lashem Aylei Part Two: Eretz Yisrael, the Ultimate Jewish Pride Part One: Mi Lashem Aylei We are a nation steeped in the search for truth....

Parashat Vayetze 5768 Parashat Vayetze – Serving Your Employer with All of Your Might Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook – Hebrew Date...

Parshat Chayei Sarah and Toldot 5768 Dear Friends: The following is an abridged version of the original which was deemed “too inflammatory.” You can receive the original on request by notifying talmcomm@netvision.net.il Part...

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...

If we read chapter 58 of Yeshayahu in its entirety, we encounter a surprising and even jarring juxtaposition. The beginning of the chapter is a searing admonition not to be hypocritical...

Holy and Secular – The trip was not short. Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Karlitz, better known as the Chazon Ish, was not used to traveling out of the city. It was even...