30 Lessons
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.
Various Subjects 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!
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions 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?
Various Subjects 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.
Various Subjects 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.
Ein Aya Ramifications of Naming a Child
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter A Paragraph 66
Parent's often choose a name for their child based upon a nice ring or contemporary style, but Judaism believes one's name has depth and significance.
Revivim Homosexuality: The Malady of Our Generation
Many people are afraid to express the position of the Torah on this issue, and give in to the power of today's liberal paganism.
Revivim Did the Rabbis Invent a Prohibition?
It is a mitzvah to marry by the age of twenty and no later than twenty-four Postponing pregnancy is similar to postponing circumcision to the ninth day.
Revivim Halakha on Abortion of Fetuses with Severe Abormalities
A fetus is considered a living entity in regards to certain laws, but there is no penalty of death for taking its life. What do the rabbinical decisors say?
Revivim Adoptive Parents
Note that there is information about the Shmitta year at the end of the article.
Revivim An Enduring Name, Better than Sons and Daughters
Dealing with the reality of infertility, both emotionally and spiritually.
Revivim The Pain of Childlessness
When a childless couple overcomes their sadness and unites with devotion and passion, they become partners in bringing down souls to the world, giving them sparks of soul from their union.
Revivim Comfort for Childless Couples
Reading articles about the mitzvah to have children is agonizing for couples who have tried every medical option and remain childless. Words addressed to them.
