Aspaklaria, a compendium of Jewish Thought by Shmuel Avraham Adler, is available online for free here: link (hat tip: RYGB) See prior freebies here: link
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Aspaklaria, a compendium of Jewish Thought by Shmuel Avraham Adler, is available online for free here: link (hat tip: RYGB) See prior freebies here: link
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R Yonatan Kaganoff / In his classic study of American Yeshivot, The World of the Yeshiva, Willian Helmreich reports on the results of his surveys of Yeshiva alumni. He asks the alumni, among other topics, questions about their religious life: what is the nature...
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by Joel Rich One of these things that makes me go hmmm! Sanhedrin 86a asks for the source of Rabbanan saying “goneiv bno” (one who kidnaps his own child) isn’t chayav. Abaye answers with the pasuk “ki yimatzeh” implies prat l’matzui(if/when found excludes already...
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By: Rabbi Ari Enkin There is an ancient Jewish custom to remain awake all night on Shavuot, immersed in Torah study. It is explained that doing so serves to...
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Where did God give the Torah? The Torah uses two distinct terms to refer to the place where God revealed the Ten Commandments — Sinai and Chorev. Are they...
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The following books have been received and may be reviewed or quoted in the future: Leadership in the Wilderness: Authority and Anarchy in the Book of Numbers by Dr....
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I have collected 18 pages of Hirhurim posts for Shavuos, although some are only tenuously or not at all connected to the holiday. And here is an original translation...
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The kosher supervision industry is both trusted and distrusted, loved and hated, respected and feared. More than anything, it is misunderstood despite the great effort its leaders put into...
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by Joel Rich R’A Lichtenstein on lev shel torah (me-does it trump logic?) The second test concerns the posek – and this, with reference to both his learning and...
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Leviticus is a very technical book with little narrative. Yet when the opportunity arises to end with a bang, with a compelling passage that grabs the reader’s attention and...
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R Avraham Edelstein / Many gay people, faced by the impenetrable wall of the prohibition against homosexuality, just give up on Judaism. This need not be so. But, even...
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by Steve Brizel R Aaron Soloveitchik ZL discusses the census in this week’s Parsha: link (audio) and the special Kedusha of women: link (audio) R Berel Wein discusses the...
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I received an e-mail informing me that Agudath Israel of America has designated tomorrow as a day of prayer, protesting the plan in Israel to decrease welfare payments and...
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In a series of lectures appropriate to the upcoming holiday of Shavuos, R. David Fohrman discusses on Aleph Beta Academy the Ten Commandments. “The Ten Commandments’ prominence in Judaism...
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R Akiva Males / An article I wrote on the vanished Jewish community of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania appeared in the summer 2012 issue of the OU’s Jewish Action magazine....
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