18 Lessons

Judging our Sages
Rabbi Michael Linetsky | iyar 6 5781

What Exactly Was Moshe's Speech Impediment?
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Shvat 1 5781
Mayor May Not
At the Shabbat Table
The cleaning lady who became the mayor of the town.
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Kislev 6 5781
Royalty
Rabbi Berel Wein | Tamuz 15 5780

A Second Look at Beit El
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Cheshvan 13 5780

Is a Position Inherited?
Question #1: The inherited shofar “Our shul’s longstanding shofar blower passed on. Are we required to appoint his son, when we would prefer to appoint a different master blaster?” Question #2: I’d like a change! “Is there a halachic reason why, in some communities, people hold their appointments on shul and school boards forever, whereas, in other communities, these positions are constantly rotated?” Question #3: Long live the Rabbi! “When a rav passes on, does his son have a claim to the position?”
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

The “firing” Of Korach
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tamuz 1 5775
Moshe And Aharon
Rabbi Berel Wein | 5771
Elections
Rabbi Berel Wein | Elul 5768
A Jewish Democracy
Rabbi Berel Wein | Nissan 5768
How Are Leaders Produced?
Leaders must set up clear goals and press forward to fulfill them. We lack leaders because we do not have clear goals, and we do not have clear goals because we lack able leadership. We must work toward clarifying the foundations of our outlook.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5766

The System of Appointing Kings
Parashat Vayishlach
Parashat Vayishlach
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 5764
On Rabbis and Politics
Why do the Rabbis of today not stand up with strength and courage like the Maccabees, and lead the Jewish people in a religious reawakening and an all-out war with the Arab enemy? Shouldn't the spiritual leaders be the ones who lead the nation?
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Elol,5763
The Rabbis' Obligation to Speak Up
Is it even conceivable that Torah leaders be told not to voice their opinion on questions which effect so significantly the future of the nation? Not only are rabbis permitted to voice the opinion of the Torah, they are obligated.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 4th Shvat, 5763

The Great Framework
We are witness today, on the one hand, to a process of liberation from confining frameworks. On the other hand, we find a desire for a great leader. Concepts which appear at first sight to be paradoxical, are actually two sides to the same coin...
Rabbi Moshe Chaviv | Kislev, 5763
National Honor
The whole concept of Jewish national pride must be totally reconstructed. True, our Sages teach that a person should "flee from honor," but this is said in reference to personal honor. Israel's national honor must be staunchly protected.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 6th Tevet, 5753

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
