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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...

Parashat Shoftim 5767 Part One: Eradicating God Part Two: Concealed and Revealed (Hidden Spaces) Part Three: I am not a Zionist Part One: Eradicating God The ritual goes like this: The...

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS president, Don Harper Mills, astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a...

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...

On days which have a musaf prayer, that is, Yom Tov, High Holidays and Rosh Chodesh, we say the prayer Ya’aleh V’Yavo in the blessing on the restoration of the Temple service....

PARSHAT RE’EH 5767 Part One: Look! Part Two: Duality and Balance Part One: Look! This week’s parsha begins with Moshe Rabbeinu’s directive to the Jewish nation to make the right choices;...

The blessings of the Amida prayer must be said in their exact order. A blessing said out of order must be repeated in its proper place (SA OC 119:3). This suggests...

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 Ekev 5767 Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel Part Two: Rabbis’ Day Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel The Torah declares that the land of Eretz Yisrael is kadosh...

Tu b’Av is the fifteenth day of Av. The Shulchan Arukh mentions that we do not say Tachanun on this day (Orach Chaim 131:6). The reason is because many joyful events...