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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...

There are three types of people: those that can count and those that cannot. We have been freed from Egypt; no longer does slavery drive us and no longer do chains...

Parshiyot Acharei – Kedoshim 5767, Memorial Day and Yom Ha’atzmaut Part One: Memorial Day (postponed this year from Sunday to Monday in order not to desecrate the Shabbat with the preparations) Words...

Pesach Sheni 5767 We recite fifteen blessings every morning: ברוך… אשר נתן לשכוי בינה להבחין בין יום ובין לילה Blessed… who has given the rooster the ability to discern between light...

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 begins with the laws of the tumah of a woman who gives birth to a boy. By the way, it mentions that the boy should be circumcised on the...

Parashat Tazria – Metzora 5767 Part One: This Dvar Torah is dedicated to a prominent rabbi in “yeshivish” circles in the United States, whom I met last Leil Shabbat (Friday night)....

Our parsha defines the forbidden and permissible species of animals. However, the permissibility of meat is dependent not only on the variety of animal but also on the method of its...

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...

Isru Chag HaPesach and Parshat Shemini 5767 “The Haggadah speaks of four sons: the wise, the evil, the naive and the ignoramus,” and parashat Shemini prohibits eating the four species which...