Lessons on Various Subjects
G-d's Waiting Room
With its abundance of retirement homes for the elderly, Miami Beach is often called, with macabre humor, “God’s waiting room”. Retirement isn’t as notorious as heart disease or cancer but it’s still a major killer.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Iyar 3 5782
Cutting Corners
What does my style of haircut have to do with idolatry? Are women included in the prohibition of shaving? May I tweeze out my facial hairs? Where are my head’s corners? My head is round!
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyar 1 5782
Can/Should a Jew Be Named “Yishmael?”
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Cheshvan 15 5782
A Renter Having a Zecher L’churban
The house I am renting does not have an unpainted segment of wall as a zecher lachurban (a remembrance that the Beit Hamikdash has been destroyed). Should I make one?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tishrei 28 5782
People
It has often been stated that no individual person is indispensable. In spite of all rumors to the contrary, the world continues to go on apace even after we have departed from the scene. Yet, there is an important caveat to this corollary.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Av 5 5781
A Lost Custom
For most of my life, I was accustomed to visiting people in their homes and in receiving visitors in my own home. My generation communicated with each other by letter correspondence or face-to-face personal visits.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 21 5781
The Mitzvah of Levayas Hameis
Rabbi Avraham Rosenthal | Tevet 15 5780