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?”

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?

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

The Halachos of Pidyon Haben

Delayed Chanukat Habayit

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.

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.

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?

Adoptive Parents

Note that there is information about the Shmitta year at the end of the article.

An Enduring Name, Better than Sons and Daughters

Dealing with the reality of infertility, both emotionally and spiritually.

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.

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.

Departures

What Is Next?

Who should I Choose as Sandek?

Generations