Time and Meaning: Each Second, Each Moment
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet...
The Matzav Shmoooze: The Disaster That Are “Hashomrim Cards”
Dear Editor@Matzav,
The new HaShomrim cards feature grotesque caricatures of frum adults using smartphones and of children complaining of the negative influence their parents have...
Generational Greatness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
As we survey the world around us and the depths to which many have fallen, it becomes difficult to remember that...
Finding Your Potential
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
When the Torah makes mention of the two stellar brothers, Moshe and Aharon, sometimes it says Moshe first and sometimes...
The Matzav Shmoooze: Enough with the Mixed Seating Please
Dear Editor@Matzav and friends,
I am baffled.
It’s 2019 and we’ve come so far in so many ways.
So why are we still stuck in old ways...
Makir Tov
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week marks the end of my sojourn in the beautiful town of Monsey. I was born here, and besides the...
ALERT: Gypsy Men in Lakewood Try to Scam People to Fix the Dents on...
Dear Editor,
There are two gypsy men driving around Lakewood, NJ, scamming people to “fix” their dents and scratches on their cars.
I have witnessed this...
Have a Harp
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week, we begin Seder Shemos, the story of redemption. But it opens with a surprising episode.
Try to imagine the scene....
An Instagram Blogger Responds: If You Don’t Like It Don’t Follow
Dear Matzav Shmooze,
I am an Instagram blogger and feel the need to respond to a letter written on this site earlier this week.
The letter...
Rabbi Gordimer to Rabbi Cardozo: Your Views Would Destroy Judaism
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo’s There’s more to Judaism than mitzvotrepresents yet another major departure from normative Orthodox Judaism on the part...
