How Do We Get To Love?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran But which is the stone that supports the bridge? - Kublai Khan   A famous Talmudic episode tells of a prospective convert coming to both...

Thousands Overwhelm Dirshu Testing Sites at First of Ten Monthly Kinyan Sheviis Tests

The first of the ten monthly tests in the Dirshu Kinyan Sheviis program during this shemitta year was held this past Cheshvan… and the...

Watch: Rav Michoel Sorotzkin On Churban and Nechama

A new shiur delivered by Rav Michoel Sorotzkin shlit'a on "Churban and Nechama" this week at K'hal Yerei'im Kollel in Cleveland, Ohio. WATCH: {Matzav.com}

Rav Moshe Twersky Hy”d On the Parsha

By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman ביום השביעי יהיה לכם קדש שבת שבתון לה’   לה:ב            The Sefer Yereim has a unique opinion that one of the taryag mitzvos is morah Shabbos.  He...

Watch: Rav Michoel Sorotzkin’s Hesped Marking First Yahrtzeit of Rav Moshe Shapiro zt”l

A unique hesped given in Yeshivas Novardok, Brooklyn NY during Shiva. WATCH: {Matzav.com}

Watch: Inside ArtScroll – Episode 13 – Farbreng and Shmooze with JOEY NEWCOMB

The newest episode of Inside ArtScroll features something entirely different and unique, as host Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger welcomed singer and composer Joey Newcomb. Far from a...

The Halachos of Chol Hamoed

The Torah uses the term "מקראי קודש" to describe both the regular days of Yom Tov, and the intermediary days of Yom Tov, which...

War and Teshuva 

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Bereishis (18:23) the posuk tells us that Avraham asked Hashem, “Will you kill a tzaddik with a Rasha?” Avraham goes through a whole negotiation with Hashem that maybe there are fifty tzadikim, then he said forty-five,...

The Odd Account of the Overnight Onion

By Rabbi Yehuda Spitz Those of us fortunate to be learning Daf Yomi are approaching the final countdown to the worldwide grand Siyum HaShas,...

Shmira on Shabbos

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The Tur in Orach Chaim, siman resh samech zayin tells us that when we daven Maariv on Shabbos we don’t finish the bracha of Hashkiveinu with the words of Shomer amo yisroel lo’ad like we...

Reading Sefer Bereshis through an Open Orthodox Lens

by Avrohom Gordimer When studying the Torah’s narratives – especially those in Sefer Bereshis – there are two key points to keep in mind: 1. The...

The Gid Hanasheh Incongruity

By Rabbi Yehuda Spitz In this week's parsha, Parshas Vayishlach, after Yaakov Avinu's epic battle with Eisav's guardian angel1, where he got injured in his...

The Truth About Metzitza B’Peh

By Daniel S. Berman, M.D. It has been more than seven years since the reports broke out in the media  that the Metzitza bePeh (hereinafter,...

Bakashos on Shabbos

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld We learn that one is not allowed to ask personal bakashos on Shabbos in a few places. This is brought down in the Yerushalmi in Perek Tes Vov of Meseches...

Lying for the Sake of Tzedaka

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The posuk in Shmos, Perek Chof gimmel, Posuk zayin says, “Midvar Sheker Tirchok.” The Gemara in Meseches Ksubos, daf yud zayin, amud alef teaches us that when the posuk is telling us to...

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Popcorn, Potato Chips, Corn Chips and Pringles: What Bracha?

Rabbi Pinchos Bodner, in his sefer on Brachos, writes (based on the Shulchan Aruch (202)) that in order to make a hoadama on a...

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