The Rebbetzin's Husband

Just a quick note: I had an interesting Shaatnez episode this week. Several months ago I bought a black Banana Republic wool suit, and had...

I received an email a couple of months ago arguing for a ban on conversion, in order to counter conversions which are performed for the sake...

[This could be a derashah for Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur for a Rabbi who was still seeking something…] In the period of Rosh haShanah and...

You know the old joke: "Why do Jews have short necks?" Followed by a deep shrug of the shoulders, the head sinking between them. ...

We split our repentance process between two tiers, one our religious relationship with G-d and the other our personal relationship with our ...

[ I am somewhat out of practice in writing derashos, and as a result this one came out wordier than I would have liked, but I still found it...

[ This is my article from this week's Toronto Torah . ] Nearly two thousand years ago, Rabbi Yehoshua battled Rabbi Eliezer regarding a ...

[ Interesting: Shana Tova Parking Tickets at Life in Israel ] [Note: "Maggid" in the title of this post refers to an angel who co...

I received this question recently: Dear The Rebbetzin's Husband, In the shul I attend, a man who receives an aliyah (is called up to the...

Years ago, I looked for a website with the words and tunes for parts of davening, to provide guidance for parents who wanted to keep up with...

[ I wrote this five years ago, in a different venue, when I was still a synagogue rabbi. It's one of my favorite posts, so I decided to ...

The other day, I heard a story about a boss whose employee approached him for encouragement. The employee was working on a project, and he a...

[ Note: My shiur on Rav Kook's "HaShofar", a poem which we discussed last week, is now on-line here . ] Rabbi Moshe Alshich...

[ Looks like Mashiach will have wireless - Israeli biblical park outfits donkeys with wireless routers ] "Failing is just an excuse for...

[Preface: Historically, Jews memorialized their loved ones by funding lamps for the synagogue or study hall on their relatives' yahrtzei...

Last week, I was speaking with an elderly friend and I mentioned a pursuit she "used to" engage in. Her response was morose, along...

[ Below, Rav Kook speaks of sleeping in galus. On that theme, see this at Life in Israel , on kosher hot dogs at Seven Eleven in Monsey . ...

For me, one of the toughest arenas in Jewish education is Tefillah (prayer) - how to make it appropriately meaningful for children at differ...

Courtesy of Yahoo News- Hungary far-right leader discovers Jewish roots As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Sze...

In a mishnah (Kelim 17), R' Yochanan ben Zakkai described people's deceptive practices, and he said, "Woe is me if I say it; Wo...