Ask The Rabbi – Is Richard Wagner Forboden?

Is Richard Wagner Forboden? Dear Rabbi I am a big fan of classical music. I recently went to an opera featuring Richard Wagner’s music. When I...

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 – Psalm 38

This Tehillim is for a refuah shalema for Yaakov Yitzchok ben Pesha Feiga For a Refua shalema for Yaakov Yitzchok ben Pesha Feiga In life, people...

Ask the Rabbi – Organ Donation

ORGAN DONATION Q. What is the Jewish view of organ donation? A. Organ donation involves two related but sometimes conflicting principles – the duty to preserve...

Ask the Rabbi – What is the question?

WHAT IS THE QUESTION? Abraham Joshua Heschel said that our generation knows the answers but has forgotten the questions. With regard to Pesach we know that...

Torah reading: Mishpatim

LAWFUL & AWE-FUL In the remarkable array of laws in this parashah, the odd man out deals with the food we eat (Ex. 22:30). In this...

Ask The Rabbi – PESACH PRICE FIXING

PESACH PRICE FIXING Dear Rabbi I think you’ve been asked this before. Why are Pesach prices so much more expensive than kosher food throughout the rest...

Parshat Balak

There were nearly four paragraphs of the Shema. The Gemarah in Mesechet Brachot (12) tells us that originally, our sages wanted to add a fourth...

Sh’mini Atzeret & Simchat Torah features

IT ISN’T PURIM In popular thinking Simchat Torah is a sort of Purim, a day for carnival jollification. But the popular view is wrong. Simchat Torah...

Ask Rabbi Schochet about the Situation in Israel

Dear Rabbi Time for some inspiration again please. We feel like we are all under attack for what’s going on in Israel. Shulie   Dear Shulie The question is...

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