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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...

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...

In many communities, especially in Israel, the custom is not to put tefillin on during chol hamoed – the intermediate days of the holidays. The reason we don’t put on tefillin...

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...

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...

Shabbat HaGadol and Pessach 5767: A different set up questions Arba Kushi’yot Sheli – My Four Questions and Their Explanations. 1- What is the significance of the strange ceremony of bedikat...

One of the transgressions which according to our parsha requires an asham is finding a lost object but denying it under oath (Vayikra 5:22-26). Rather, one who finds a lost object...

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 Vayikra 5767 Rabbi Elazar says in Ketubot 111a: Whoever resides in Eretz Yisrael is without sin, as the prophet says (Yeshayahu 33:24): “Let no one say that he is ill...

Our parsha relates that the Jews in the desert were so enthusiastic to help provide for the Mishkan and its contents that Moshe soon had to announce that people should stop...