Torah and Daily Life

Ask the rabbi: what are the jewish implications of a total solar eclipse?

No Opinion

In my younger days, I had great certainty about life, people, events, and the future. It soon becomes quite evident that in many circumstances, having no opinion is not only the safer path in life, but in most cases, it is also the wiser one.

The Lost Computer File

What's the Ideal Life Style, Working for a Living or Just Learning?

One of the most basic questions is how should we strive to live? The differing approaches to this issue is seen to this day, whether just to learn Torah (as claimed by the Haredim) or to also merge work as an ideal, as proclaimed by the modern-orthodox or religious-Zionists. If one is a millionaire, and doesn't need to work for a living, perhaps nevertheless, he should work, if it's an ideal. This machloket is found already among chazal, but even in the time of R. Shimon Bar Yochai, who had claimed that just Torah is the ideal, he surprisingly & apparently changed his mind, and joined Torah vaAvodah! The Chatam Sofer also differentiates between those living in Israel, where work is a mitzva and holy, as opposed to work in the diaspora.

Earthware and Earthenware

The "Fillers" in Literature and Poetry

Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 19

Readers generally focus on the main theme, but there is significance also in what each author uses as secondary and side issues.

On Internet and Literature- Super-Good or Super-Bad

Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 18

G-d created all of the different levels of wisdom, and not by mistake!