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Chanukah: To Demonstrate and Reveal the Miracle - A short shiur on the Rambam on Chanukah given at the Young Israel of Northridge, CA. 17 Kislev 5785. December 7, 2025. We come to explain the language use...
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‘Weapons Are Our Honor and Glory’: Hamas Chief Khaled Mashal Rejects Disarmament, Defies Trump Gaza Peace Plan - Hamas’s external chief Khaled Mashal delivered a fiery address that openly celebrated the organization’s armed campaign and portrayed the group’s arsenal a...7 hours ago
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The Absent-Minded Rabbis - by R. Gil Student We tend to imagine the great sages as flawless in both halakhic mastery and personal awareness. Generally, this attitude has great merit ...8 hours ago
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What Does it Take? - Music Video Ft. Simcha Leiner - Song composed by: Yitzy Waller Written by: Miriam Israeli Music produced by: Shua Sorscher Sung by: Simcha Leiner Video credits Video production: Vinkel St...
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Interesting Psak: Haredi women bus drivers - A group of rabbonim in Tzfat (with the support of some national rabbonim) have decided to take on the phenomenon of Haredi women becoming bus drivers. The ...
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Of Clowns, Giants, Mules, and Centaurs: The Enigmatic Anah - Of Clowns, Giants, Mules, and Centaurs: The Enigmatic Anah By Yecheskel Sklar Yecheskel Sklar, a student of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood NJ, is the auth...4 days ago
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NYC principal denies request for Holocaust survivor to speak at school - A Brooklyn middle school principal denied a parent's request to have a Holocaust survivor speak to students about antisemitism — saying the victim's pro-Is...4 days ago
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A Contemporary Riff on a Famous Gemara - Wherein is referenced an incident from Sukkah 49a, cited in today’s Daf (Zevachim 62a) There was an incident involving one Sadducee priest who poured the...3 weeks ago
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Rethinking Introspection: A Healthier Approach to Mussar - At a friend’s daughter’s chasanah, I struck up a conversation with his son-in-law, a young and dynamic Rabbi. Wanting to understand his approach, I asked...8 months ago
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Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...4 years ago
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated in the ...6 years ago
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Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle the Menor...6 years ago
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R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
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Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...10 years ago
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the realm of ...10 years ago
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TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped being...11 years ago
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Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...13 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...14 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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