The True Reality
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Face it. Life has its rough patches, days when nothing seems to go as planned and everything you do leaves you...
Matzav Inbox: The Tzedakah Organizations That Have Ruined Purim for Our Kids – and...
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I can't be the only one who’s fed up with the flood of tzedakah brochures that get sent home for our children...
Matzav Inbox: Fireworks and Purim
Dear Matzav Inbox,
It is beyond time that we address the disturbing trend of people – both children and adults – using fireworks on Purim....
What Seems Broken Could Really be Building
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber
In the eighth perek of Megillas Esther, the passuk tells us that Haman’s estate was given to Esther and Mordechai....
We Are Here!
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
People wonder how we can celebrate Purim with true joy while a war is going on in Eretz Yisroel. People ask...
Matzav Inbox: Noise During Megillah Laining: A Call for Reflection and a Solution
Dear Matzav Inbox,
Each year, as Purim approaches, we eagerly anticipate the sacred and joyous mitzvah of hearing the Megillah. It is a time to...
What Is Happening?
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Monsters. There is no other way to describe them. Bloodthirsty killers. How long will the world continue to play games with...
Fidelity to the Truth
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
We are meant to learn lessons from current events. Today’s headlines connect to the first Rashi in this week’s parsha.
A new...
Matzav Inbox: A Shift in Attitude – Feeling the Pain of Our Brothers in...
Dear Matzav Inbox,
As Bnei Torah, we strive to follow the gedolim, to live by the Torah, and to dedicate ourselves to Torah. We raise...
Matzav Inbox: The Nauseous Clothing Ads in Our Publications
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I am writing in response to the nauseating trend that has become all too prevalent in Jewish publications — ads for children's...
The Beauty of Shabbos
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Finally, after generations of enslavement in Mitzrayim and a dramatic redemption, Klal Yisroel reaches the apex of creation, standing at Har...
Matzav Inbox: President Trump, You Have Failed Us With the Hostages!
Dear Editor,
We are writing this letter with heavy hearts, deeply torn between our gratitude for all that President Trump has done for us and...
Choose the Path of Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Recently, we’ve become all too familiar with the heartbreaking news from Eretz Yisroel: surprise attacks, bombings, hostages, deaths, and soldiers killed...
Could Trump’s Call to Resettle Gazans End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Once and for All?
By Alex Traiman
President Donald Trump, sitting alongside Israeli Prime Binyomin Netanyahu, issued a geopolitical earthquake on Tuesday, doubling down on calls to resettle “1.7...
Matzav Inbox: The “I Only Teach Metzuyanim” Sickness
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I took a week to gather my thoughts after the recent mesivta farher/application debacle. I needed time to calm down and clear...
Chizuk: Agam Taught Emunah to Millions of Yidden
By Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman
Yeshiva Ohr Somayach
The actions of *Agam Berger* תחי' and her mother are something that one witnesses maybe once in a...
Matzav Inbox: The Real Hypocrisy of “Yeshiva Week,” A.K.A. Midwinter Vacation
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I am writing about the glaring hypocrisy that is “Yeshiva Week,” or "Midwinter Vacation." (The first is the Modox term that somehow...
Light Through Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The world is moving so fast that we can barely keep track of what is going on. After experiencing four years...
Matzav Inbox: Why is a 5th Grade Boy Vaping?
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I have an overwhelming sense of disgust and frustration over the growing trend of young bochurim, some as young as in 5th...
Matzav Inbox: The Financial Struggles of a Young Frum Family
Dear Matzav Inbox,
As a young frum family, we are finding it increasingly impossible to make ends meet, even as we tighten our belts and...
