Torah reading: Acharei Mot
IT ALL ADDS UP
A major portion of this week's sidra recurs in the Torah readings on Yom Kippur morning and afternoon since it describes...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin’s Torah from Eretz Yisrael
The current corona virus crisis has toppled the world order, sent stock markets plummeting and reshaped human consciousness. For many, it is,and will remain the most shocking event of their lifetimes. We...
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 Psalm 26
This week’s Tehillim is for a refuah shelema for Zelda Symbol bat Shoshana
King David was one of the most righteous Jews who ever...
Rabbi Moshe Targin on Purim – We are not living through a lottery?
Each name of a Jewish holiday is iconic. The name Pesach evokes the transformative sacrifice which launched our national liberation. The name Chanukah captures...
Yom Hashoah: interviews with three Jewish martyrs
On a wintry October day in 1941 The Jews of the Kovno ghetto were assembled at an Umshlagplatz (gathering place), about to be deported...
Too Many Experts – Torah Column by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
There are very few storylines as dramatic or as harsh as the saga of a ben sorer u'moreh. A wayward adolescent boy exhibits preliminary...
ASK THE RABBI – THE JEWISH VIEW ON SOCIALISM
THE JEWISH VIEW ON SOCIALISM
Dear Rabbi
Can you sum up the Jewish perspective on socialism? Is the Corbyn model really so wrong? Doesn’t Judaism...
Corona Diary #26: Time After Time by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Jewish holidays recount seminal moments of Jewish history. These annual celebrations shape our collective memory just as they animate our common future. The celebration...
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND WRONGS
The sugya on Daf 32b debates whether צער בעלי חיים is a Torah law or not, but gives no indication where it is mentioned...
