The Rebbetzin's Husband

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...

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 his recent article on the decision by certain rabbis to rule on complex issues rather than consult senior scholars, Rabbi Hershel Schach...

Even though our Beit Midrash publishes a weekly dvar torah bulletin , which we make as interest-grabbing as we can with a range of spec...

[ 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...

This is a new experience for me: An entire night of inability to sleep, with a full day of meetings and shiurim ahead. I am going to be an a...

Several weeks ago I came across interesting 13th century comments recorded in the Shiltei Giborim [on the Rif] to Avodah Zarah 20. These com...

I don't celebrate New Year's Day as a religious holiday, but something in me registers a substantive, positive change when the year ...

Gd-willing, I'll be delivering a shiur (first of two parts) on Wednesday evening, on the topic of Kollel Study. It's part of my seri...