CORONA TAKE-AWAY
Dear Rabbi
I hope you don’t mind me asking you this, in this forum. I have read some of your writings and watched some of...
Tehillim 149
This psalm is full of lofty praise for Hashem. The penultimate psalm of Tehillim has been made into an ever popular Avram Fried song....
Ask Rabbi Shochet
BACK INTO THE RING
Dear Rabbi
I look forward to reading your Ask the Rabbi in the Jewish Weekly every week. Torah endorses dispute and differences...
The Backward River
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
The primary Hebrew word for inheritance is “yerusha. However, the Torah supplies an additional term for inheritance– the word “nachalah”- and...
Tehillim 148
This week’s psalm brings us within touching distance of the end of Tehillim. It is one of the most all encompassing psalms in the whole...
Ask Rabbi Shochet on reopening Shuls
SHOULD WE HAVE SHUT SHULS?
Dear Rabbi
Was it really right to close Shuls during the pandemic and to continue restricting numbers now, even as the...
A Long Hot Summer, by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
The Table is set and history beckons! The Jews are primed to enter the land of Israel, construct a Temple, and usher in utopia...
Yom Yerushalayim Article by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Six for Six : How the World Changed in Six Days
Moshe Taragin
The actual state of Israel was established 72 years ago in 1948. However,...
Shemita and Corona
By Rabbi Moshe Targin
In the modern industrialized world the mitzvah of Shemittah may seem a bit remote with little relevance for our daily urbanized...
Ask Rabbi Schochet on Zoom Minyanim and Sinat Chinam
WHY CAN’T I SAY A ZOOM KADDISH?
Dear Rabbi
I am appreciative of all the online opportunities that are out there and I have been joining...