The Rebbetzin's Husband

Note: I expect to take a blog break over the next couple of weeks. Nothing traumatic is going on, and I'm not on vacation, I just want...

The other day I came across an interesting Slate piece called "Bad Memoir Writing: Rules for doing it well". I enjoyed the piece, ...

I feel like this blog has gotten away from me a bit. Looking back a bit, recent posts seem to me less personal, and less fully thought out, ...

Four years ago I decided to start this blog, with the post that appears below. This followed a stretch of a little over a year in which I ha...

I should blog. I have several items which should be blogworthy - My upcoming 2nd anniversary of stepping away from the pulpit... A medicine/...

[ Interesting quote: "There is no need to be frummer than Bais Yaakov." ] I was going to write about this several weeks ago, but s...

I received the email below a few days ago: from: Christie [omitted] christie@article-writing-services.org to: torczyner@gmail.com date: Fri...

We've discussed the issue of rabbis and blogs and professionalism before, such as in Hypothetical Question and in Rabbis friending chil...

[ This week's Haveil Havalim is here ] So here's a hypothetical question: Let's say you were a former shul rabbi who had a 3-yea...

Like many bloggers, I occasionally skim through the keywords that bring people to this blog; they can be amusing. Looking at Google Analytic...

[Side note: Mazal Tov to me – At some point this past week we passed 100,000 page views on this blog. Of course, the number is somewhat unde...

This is a personal complaint post; feel free to skip it. I would, if I were you. But A Living Nadneyda was kind enough to tag me for the Hon...

First, a photo of my wonderful children, at Birkat haChamah. Well, no, not actually at Birkat haChamah. You see, we had scheduled the commu...

[ I have some big news, but I'm not ready to blog it just yet. ] One of the fun side-effects of blogging is that it makes periodic self...

[ Note: I wrote this in a bad mood, so it's a little darker than I would like. Still, I believe the message is essentially correct, so I...

I was visiting Frume Sarah’s World when I noticed, in her sidebar, a link to a Blog Rating site . They use the MPAA ratings code to label b...

I had a spare ten years or so while in a doctor’s waiting room this afternoon. Having finished reviewing the parshah ( not too hard for Beha...

I don’t have the time to write this, but I must: In a fine afikoman gift to the blogosphere, RenReb has posted her first new post in many,...

...because I just can't. What’s in a name, you ask? Far too much, it seems, because after two months here I still can’t come up with a n...

Why a blog? A few reasons: Reason 1 . Part of being a rabbi is being an educator. In that role, I want to teach, to inform, to challenge, to...