Hillel Krief: Rosh Hashana vs. Yom Kippur
Hillel Krief grew up in Highland Park, but after spending two years at Yeshivat Har Etzion, he joined tzahal, the Israeli military. He will return… Read More »Hillel Krief: Rosh Hashana vs. Yom Kippur
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Tehilla Helfenbaum and Dan Jutan: Blessings, Curses, Fruits (Ki Tavo)
Tehilla Helfenbaum spent two years learning Talmud at Amudim. She now studies religion and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dan Jutan is the co-founder… Read More »Tehilla Helfenbaum and Dan Jutan: Blessings, Curses, Fruits (Ki Tavo)
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: The Greatness and Lowliness of Human Beings (Ki Tavo)
Two of the most well-known schools of thought within the mussar movement are known as Slabodka and Novordok, after the towns in which these yeshivos… Read More »Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: The Greatness and Lowliness of Human Beings (Ki Tavo)
Rina Sobel: Brother Bird (Parashat Ki Tetze)
Tisha B’Av, 2019, I brilliantly decided that 9:40am (I’m not a morning person, so that’s a little early for a day off) would be a… Read More »Rina Sobel: Brother Bird (Parashat Ki Tetze)
Ezra Blaut: Judges and Kings (Parashat Shoftim)
In Parshat Shoftim, we have many laws mostly pertaining to order and structure and the laws for those people who maintain such laws. The commandments… Read More »Ezra Blaut: Judges and Kings (Parashat Shoftim)
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: “Worry About Your Own Soul, But Your Friend’s Stomach” (Parashat Shoftim)
The Torah contains many hundreds of rules—both obligations and prohibitions—and also prescribes consequences for violating these laws that include compensatory payments, fines, lashes, and execution. … Read More »Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: “Worry About Your Own Soul, But Your Friend’s Stomach” (Parashat Shoftim)
Dan Jutan: Educated Choice (Parashat Re’eh)
It’s no secret that I am a halakhic Jew. I was educated in a Modern Orthodox high school as well as in a traditional, Orthodox… Read More »Dan Jutan: Educated Choice (Parashat Re’eh)
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: Beyond “Mitzvas Anashim Melumadah” (Parashat Re’eh)
I have heard from several different people that Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, the great—perhaps the last—paragon and teacher of the mussar movement, bemoaned what he saw… Read More »Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: Beyond “Mitzvas Anashim Melumadah” (Parashat Re’eh)
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: Lest You Forget That God Took You Out of Egypt (Eikev)
One of the recurring themes in Sefer Devarim is concern that the Jewish people will forget God and His Torah during times of peace and… Read More »Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill: Lest You Forget That God Took You Out of Egypt (Eikev)