Shmuel

Walking in Israel

What are the parameters of the idea that every 4 amot one walks in Eretz Yisrael is a mitzva? Is it only to new places? Does one have to walk on foot?

Why Can’t Women Blow the Shofar for Men?

Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair Said: “Purity Leads to Sanctity”

Why to Learn Torah

To Contemplate the Action or the One Who Acts

Animal Sacrifices in the Third Temple?

Tu B'Shevat-Renewal

Tu B'Shevat signals renewed vitalization in nature. Some Halachic ramifications of the New Year for the trees, the parallel to the spiritual renewal of man on our New Year, and how our daily, monthly and yearly "timetable" is intimately connected with the Land of Israel.

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...

Overpricing as a Reason to Nullify a Sale

Dreams & Reality

The Corruption of Society

Parashat Noach

Parashat Noach

The Weak Point of the Seventeenth of Tammuz

There is a tendency, on fast days, for people to concentrate upon the calamities of the past and on the stages that led up to the destruction of the Temple. People reflect on the distant past when they aught - says the Rambam - consider the present.