Lessons on Current Events

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Seeking Rav Kook's Glasses, to See and Welcome Redemptive Times

Rabbi Tal Chaimovich | 30 Shvat 5785

4 min

Selective Enforcement in Jewish Law

Rabbi Uri Sadan | 24 Tevet 5785

2 min

Two Names - Yaakov and Yisrael (Jacob and Israel)

Rabbi Dov Bigon | 19 Kislev 5785

4 min

Removing Tradition (and Openness) from Traditional

Rabbi Abraham Wasserman | 19 Av 5784

They Are A Package!

Rabbi Haggai Lundin | 9 Nissan 5784

October 7th and Purim 5784

Rabbi Haggai Lundin | 16 Adar II 5784

What Was Is Not What Will Be

Rabbi Haggai Lundin | 4 Shvat 5784

COPING WITH TERROR AND TRAGEDY

On a spiritual level, two theological questions cry out to us: Is there justice in the world? And what is the nature of a God of love and mercy in a world filled with evil? When we witness the brutal murder of both soldiers and civilians, the young and the old, we are numbed and bewildered, at a loss as to making religious sense of it all. We feel helpless at even beginning to comprehend the ways of God.

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tishrei 26 5784

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Mentioning Rain

Davening for Rain in the Southern Hemisphere

Part 2

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Cheshvan 21 5779

D'varim

Poetic Controversies

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 1 5777

Prayer

The Kavanah in the prayer

Chapter one- part three

What should I do if I can't concentrate at the prayer?

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Prayer

May I Daven in English?

People, who cannot read Hebrew at all, have no choice but to pray in the language that they can read and understand. However, anyone who can should accept the challenge of studying the prayers a bit at a time, gradually thereby developing both fluency and comprehension

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

Prayer

The Blessing for Rain for those travelling to the Land of Israel

Praying for a Rainy Day When Traveling to or from Eretz Yisroel in November

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5771

Naso

The Mitzvah of “Duchening” - Birchas Kohanim

The basic Halachot of Duchening, taking off shoes and washing hands, Why Is This Mitzvah Called Duchening? The connection between Duchening and dreams...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5769

Shabbat

Hatzalah and Radios

May one carry a Shabbat Radio on Shabbat when no emergency exists in order to be available if one does? The differences between kli she'me'lachto l'heter and kli she'me'lachto l'issur. Carrying the radio on shabbat where there is no Eruv.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5769

Vayishlach

The Halacha and History of the Gid Hanosheh

The mitzvah of gid hanosheh forbids us from eating the sciatic nerve, a sinew that runs from the lower back over the top of the hip and down the leg. Another Mitzvah is not eating the Cheylev, some fats in an animal.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | kislev 5769

Basics of Financial Laws

The Rights of a Copyright Holder

What is the halachic background to copyright law? Does the Torah have a concept of intellectual property rights, meaning that someone who creates or invents an item is owner of his invention? May a rav prevent people from taping his shiur? May one copy computer software or music disks?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyar 5768

Laws of Hanukkah

Flying High - A Traveler’s Guide to Channukah

What does one do about Channukah candles in a hotel, while traveling and in other complicated circumstances?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 5768

Various Subjects

The Laws Relating to Converts

The laws relating to Jewish converts are most astounding. Despite the criticism directed at the Jewish people on the grounds that Judaism is racist, the Torah teaches us that any non-Jew who earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do so.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Chassidish Stories

Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk: The Pioneering Rebbe

It would appear that his thirst for closeness to God, and his great longing for the Holy Land - the land wherein the Divine Presence rests - shook his inner being so strongly that no worldly enjoyment could compare to living in the land of Israel.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Iyar, 5763

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