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.

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!

Can/Should a Jew Be Named “Yishmael?”

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.

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.

The Mitzvah of Levayas Hameis

Understanding the Shalom Zachor