Lessons on The Torah vs. Public Issues

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Rabbi S. Yossef Weitzen
Rabbi Avraham Shapira Zt"l
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Rabbi Sha'ar Yashuv Hacohen
Rabbi Berel Wein
Rabbi Chaim Avihau Schwartz
Rabbi Simcha Kook ZT"L
Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg
Rabbi Eliyahu Brin

How Should Natural Gas Profits be Divided? The Torah View

The principle set by the Torah: A person is entitled to enjoy the fruits of his own hard work, but natural resources and means of production should be shared equally.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tamuz 15 5775

Confusing Roles

Rabbi Berel Wein | 5774

Prevailing Versus Winning

Rabbi Berel Wein | 5770

Who is Entitled to be Called "Rav"?

A necessary requirement of every person who receives rabbinic ordination is to faithfully and selflessly continue the traditions that Moshe Rabbeinu started when he laid his hands upon his pupil Yehoshua Bin Nun.

Rabbi Yaakov Ariel | Sivan, 5762

Torah and Politics - "The King's Second Torah Scroll"

When Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Kook, zt"l, was asked his opinion regarding the involvement of rabbis in politics, he answered as follows: "Rabbis are obligated by the Torah to involve themselves in politics..."

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 5753

Adding, Uprooting, and Rabbinical Authority

What gives the Rabbis the right to add laws to those which the Torah commanded us? From where do they derive the authority to enact preventative safeguards that result in the uprooting of Torah law?

Rabbi Baruch Paz | Nisan 5762

Emuna From the Cradle

Rabbi Shalom Arush | Shvat 19 5782

Connection in Blood

based on Ein Ayah, Shabbat 14:4

based on Ein Ayah, Shabbat 14:4

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Kislev 7 5781

Moral v. Political Decisions

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tamuz 13 5780

And They Cried Out- Crying to Hashem or Crying out of Agony

Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon | 5778

Shir Hyichud on Yom Kippur

Who wrote Shirei Yichud and What is it all about? An analysis on this Yom Kippur song.

Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | 5573

How Does a Heter Iska Work?

What is the prohibition of "Ribbit"? who does it apply on? How does the "Heter Iska" bypass the prohibition? and more...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770

A Special Breed of Leader

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 5769

Explaining the Other Laws of the Three Weeks

Halachot that apply during the three weeks: marriage, dancing, playing and listening to music, singing and reciting the Shehechiyanu Bracha.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 2 5768

Customs of the Three Weeks

The three weeks that begin on the night of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av are days of national woefulness. The sages therefore advise being especially careful during this period, for it is a time designated for calamity.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Sivan 5768

Shaving and Haircuts during the Three Weeks

When during the three weeks can I shave and have a haircut? What are the laws of mourning with regard to shaving?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5768

21. The Dangers of Pride

Just as “cleanliness” must reside in deeds, so must it reside in traits. The work involved in changing one's traits is more difficult than that involved in changing one's deeds. This is because changing traits means doing battle with one's own nature.

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed

The Parameters of Pinchas' Zealotry

Parashat Pinchas

Beyond Intellect and Emotion A Dearth of Halachot Of Torah or Rabbinic Origin? Zimri's Right to Self-Defense A Lesson Learned

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 5749-54