The Rebbetzin's Husband

In a message I sent to our Beit Midrash email list this week, I asked people to contribute to our UJA's Emergency Relief Fund for humani...

A few weeks ago, in a morning minyan, I saw a gabbai offer hagbah (the honour of lifting the Torah and displaying it to the community afte...

In advance of my daughter Rena's Bat Mitzvah this past Shabbos, we learned the part of the sixth chapter of Pirkei Avos that lists 48 tr...

Some thoughts on kashrut, from an article appearing in this week's Toronto Torah : Twenty years ago, a student asked me, “If G-d made ...

About a month ago, I posted a question on this blog : "Is teaching a class an act of chesed (generosity)?" I received some insight...

In the run-up to Pesach, I delivered a shiur on "Pesach: When the Questions Matter More than the Answers" in a few different venue...

I want to write many posts, but I have far too many responsibilities to indulge in writing them. I can justify spending time on this post, t...

When I switched from the synagogue rabbinate to my primarily-educational role in Toronto's YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash, I wrestled wit...

Since I've been speaking about death so much lately, here's my contribution to Purim Torah 5775 : The Torah's 616th mitzvah, Ass...

This, from a friend in Pennsylvania, is priceless: Because yes, I really do feel better when the forecast says +1...

When I was a synagogue rabbi, I bemoaned the fact that so much of what I did was death-centered. Well, the past couple of weeks have been a ...

In case the few remaining readers have been wondering where I've been, quite a bit of my time in the past week has been dedicated to wri...

This past Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the federal ban on assisting suicide violates the rights of Canadian citizens. As t...

Since ISIS began spreading a video showing their burning of captured Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasaesbeh , various writers have tried to expl...

While preparing a class on Miriam last week, I came across essays ( here and here ) which show that Josephus and Pseudo-Philo, in the first...

Long-time readers of this blog (=those who remember the days when I would post three times per week) know that I am unable to get Moshe Rab...