The Rebbetzin's Husband

Several years ago, researchers at Baylor University in the US published a study entitled, "American Piety in the 21 st century"....

A thought for Pesach: Many themes thread through the events of our departure from Egypt, but one caught my eye this week: The focus on tim...

I wrote the following for this week's Toronto Torah . It's an idea that occurred to me only in the last few days, and I find it comp...

[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...

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

I wrote this tonight, for the bentcher for my son's Bar Mitzvah. Thoughts appreciated: The fourth blessing of Birkat haMazon identifies ...

[ "Wow, now that 's going to cause trouble" post of the day, at Life in Israel ] Jewish literature is replete with diverse pra...

[ I wrote my first version of this several years ago, when my 5 year old daughter had to have a colonoscopy to check for stomach problems. T...

[ If you are interested in my three shiurim on Rav Kook's Orot haTeshuvah, they are now on-line here , here and here . Note that the so...

[ This week’s Haveil Havalim is here ] Just a quick Torah thought, synopsis of a greater discussion, leading up to Rosh haShanah. If you wan...

I’ve been sending out daily “Torah Thought” emails for 13 years now; these are just straight texts, almost always without editorial comment...

Got rid of the chamez, sifted and checked the quinoa, washed and checked and washed and checked the marror-lettuce. The kids are lunching on...

I was asked to speak before maariv on Yom Kippur night; here's what I expect to say: Rabbi Haskel Lookstein has commented that Yom Kippu...