The Rebbetzin's Husband

I sent the following post to my Beit Midrash email list last week, and received enough positive feedback that I've decided to post it he...

( See the previous post for Part 1 ) Finally, the day of the competition arrived. Ami rose before first light, so that he could down ...

The contest ad was released on the listservs of dozens of shuls at 10:00 PM EST after Shabbos Shirah. By 10:02 PM, Ami had texted his wife...

In 19th century Germany, Karl Graf and Julius Wellhausen argued that most of the book of Devarim was published in the era of King Yoshiyahu ...

Pirkei Avot (5:22) says of the Torah, "Turn it over and turn it over, for all is in it." As an American living in Canada, who is r...

A simple question, but it matters to me; I've been thinking about it for the past few weeks. I'd be happy to hear responses from the...

( This isn't actually a derashah; it's more of a nugget, which could be developed into a derashah. ) Next week's Torah portion...

The element I appreciated most in Dr. Yagil Henkin's eulogy for his brother , Rabbi Eitam Henkin, was the insight he gave into Rabbi Hen...

I ended up re-writing my derashah this morning... I do think this will be better than the previous version. Live in Israel, even among i...

I'm not entirely sure I like this derashah enough to use it. Not for any reason I can pinpoint, except perhaps that it feels educational...