Torah, OpinionPARKING SPOT
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012 6:00 PM
Yankel drove with his wife to the Yeshiva's Annual Dinner. "I hope we'll be able to find parking," she said.
When they arrived, Yankel circled the block twice looking for parking, but had no luck. "I'll wait on the block until a spot opens," he said. He pulled up by a driveway in the middle of the block and waited ... Read More
Torah, ReligionA TORONTO RABBI Harassing A Proselyte
Posted: Apr 2nd, 2012 1:07 PM
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TorahTNT (Thursday Night Torah)
Posted: Jun 30th, 2011 9:34 PM
Short Version: How proper is it to be Mkarev people who are not Jewish. Is it appropriate to consistently and regularly host Non-Jews at your family’s Shabbos table just because their spouse/significant other is Jewish? And Why is Parah Aduma so much more of a “Chok” than other seemingly unexplainable Mitzvos? and ... Read More
TorahVideo: Davening With Hishtapchus Hanefesh
Posted: Jun 20th, 2011 1:32 PM
SOME SFARD GUY PRAYING IN ISRAEL, I LIKE THE RYTHEM THIS GUY HAS A SHMONE ESRA TO REMEMBER his name is sebag he is a very enthusiastic induvidual. Read More
TorahA Review Of iTalmud For iPad
Posted: Mar 7th, 2011 2:43 PM
This is a review by Dov Bear, at dovbear.blogspot.com
In 2009 @efink reviewed the iPhone version of iTalmud by Crowded Road. He liked it very much. For the last few days, I've been testing the iPad version of the same software, and I share his enthusiasm. This is one neat little app.
For starters, iTalmud gives you three ... Read More
TorahTNT - Thursday Night Torah By Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Posted: Feb 24th, 2011 9:27 PM
Capsule Version: Whose fault is it that no one calls with Shidduchim (dates) for our daughters? Should parents have to turn into full time matchmakers for their own kids or risk their kids never getting married? Doesn't Hashem make the matches anyway?
Dear Friends,
Writing (on Blackberry) from Dallas, Texas (will be home ... Read More
Torah, ReligionRav Ovadia Yosef’s Son: Women Can’t Teach Boys Beyond 4th Grade
Updated: Feb 10th, 2011 12:56 PM
Chief Rabbi of Holon and son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Abraham Yosef, issued a ruling in recent days forbidding women from working as teachers to children over the age of 9.
The younger Rabbi Yosef said that "if it was slightly over age 9, I would still look the other way, but beyond 4th grade, in 5th ... Read More
TorahSpecial Tu B SHVAT TNT By Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Posted: Jan 19th, 2011 7:00 PM
Tonight's TU BISHVAT discussion:
Vegetarianism, veganism--how come it seems that these "isms" are the domain of the more secular world? How many frum Vegans do you know? How many kosher vegetarian restaurants stay/are in business? When was the last time your heard a Shmuess (sermon, if you will) on the importance of living a ... Read More
TorahTNT- Thursday Night Torah With Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Updated: Dec 31st, 2010 8:23 AM
Dear Friends,
From the Rabbi Files:
You are a Rabbi, and a young couple, new to the neighborhood, come to you to ask you to marry them. The bride-to-be says that she finalized a divorce a few years ago, and while she thought it would never happen -thanks to Hashem she found the perfect guy- a truly nice, young Jewish ... Read More
TorahThe Fast of the Tenth of Teves, Asara B’Teves
Updated: Dec 19th, 2010 2:20 AM
By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
The first mention that we see of the tenth day of Teves as a fast day appears in Zecharia 8:19, where th verse mentions the “fast of the tenth month…” As the tenth month counting from Nissan (which is referred to as the first month) is Teves, the fast of the “tenth month” is the Fast of the ... Read More
TorahDaf Yomi Begins Maseches Zevachim Today
Updated: Nov 29th, 2010 6:07 PM
Lomdei Daf Hayomi worldwide are beginning Maseches Zevachim today, having wrapped up Maseches Horiyos - and theentire Seder Nezikin - yesterday. The learners of Daf Yomi are making their way ever closer to the next Siyum Hashas, which will take place, iy”H, on August 2, 2012, just a few days after Tisha B’Av. With ... Read More
TorahHesped Delivered by Rav Shach zt”l On Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l
Updated: Nov 9th, 2010 5:38 PM
This is a translation of a hesped delivered by Rav Elazar Schach zt”l upon the passing of Rav Aharon Kotler on 2 Kislev 5723-1963.
In recent years we have lost many of the Torah giants that we had with us-Rav Issar Zalman Meltzer, the Chazon Ish, the Brisker Rav, zichronom livrachah. Although we have had no consolation, ... Read More
TorahHalachic Analysis: Removing A Fruit Tree To Build A Yeshiva
Posted: Nov 8th, 2010 4:35 PM
There is a Yeshiva in the Five Towns, Far Rockaway community that is looking to build. They have the property. They have the plans. They are securing the funding.
The problem?
A tree. A fruit-bearing tree – to be precise. Not that this little tree is preventing them from moving forward, but at least it is a ... Read More
TorahAvos Ubanim Season Begins This Motzei Shabbos
Updated: Nov 1st, 2010 12:35 AM
The Avos Ubanim season will be beginning this Motzei Shabbos. The program, which isparticipated by over 45 Shuls around Lakewood, consists of an hour of learning from 7:45. p.m. – 8:45 p.m. (For the next two weeks. Beginning Parshas Vayeitzei, it will take place from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.) The program is for father ... Read More
TorahTONIGHT: The Shmuz Sunday Oct. 10 – Bitachon & Hishtadlus Finding The Balance
Updated: Oct 10th, 2010 3:44 PM
The Shmuz this Sunday, October 10 9:00PM Maariv followed by the Shmuz - Bitachon & Hishtadlus Finding The Balance at Khal Zichron Yakkov 175 Sunset Road. Read More
Torah, ReligionMaybe rabbi Miller would like to respond to the PSAK of three BOTTAY-DINIM
Updated: Jun 7th, 2012 10:03 AM
While Toronto achieved the degree of SODOM when accepting the GEYORES they just forgot to smear on honey before they started stinging her from all sides. Perhaps rabbi miller might want to explain to us how exactly he got involved in this case and what were the motives which led him to execute the current terror on the ... Read More
Politics, Torah, Religion"TUL KOIRO BAIN EINECHO"
Updated: Jan 9th, 2012 3:41 AM
There has been a lot of talk lately about Bes Din, 'unauthorized Bes Dins'
'improper acting Bes Din' etc. In Lakewood of the late. Leading the charge
against Rabbi Knoflers Bes Din is Rabbi Gavriel Finkel of the 'Vaad
HaDayanim', a once popular and now basically defunct Bes Din. So it would be
worthwhile to see how Rabbi ... Read More
TorahBORUCH DAYAN EMMES: Petirah Of Harav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz ZT"L
Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 3:25 PM
BORUCH DAYAN EMMES: The Ponovez Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz ZT"L was niftar at the age of 97.
Rav Michel Yehuda ZT"L, was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponovezh for more then 50 years and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel Hatorah. Read More
TorahTNT (Thursday Night Torah)
Posted: May 19th, 2011 8:38 PM
Dear Friends,
Short Version of Topic(s) for the time-starved: How can so many people be worried and makpid about Chalav yisroel but do not seem to have any problems with the (biblical?) issur and prohibition of Chodosh? Also, how come the Torah seems to focus on fear and punishment as the main factor and motivational ... Read More
TorahTNT (Thursday Night Torah) By Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2011 10:10 PM
Capsule "Shaila": Is it possible to truly fulfill the Mitzva of Emuna, the obligation to have faith in Hashem without our Emuna ever truly being tested? In other words, do we need to go through Tzaros before we can prove our faith in Hashem? If yes, why do we all daven that we never have tzaros? If not, then how do we ever ... Read More
Torah, ImpactAUDIO: Rav Mattisyahu Salomon Shmues About Girls Going To College
Updated: Feb 22nd, 2011 2:24 PM
Audio: Rav Mattisyahu Salomon weekly Shmues
Ki Sisa 5771
Shmuess to Bochrim Read More
Politics, TorahTNT Tonight with Rabbi Rubanowitz- Should We Try To Look Like Something We Are Not?
Updated: Feb 4th, 2011 2:46 AM
Dear Friends,
Short Version of Topic: Shall you feel empowered to discipline other people's children who might be involved in making a public Chilul Hashem? And ... is there any place for insincerity and "two-facedness" when practicing Yiddishkeit? (In other words-is it ok to look like a Tzaddik even though you are clearly ... Read More
TorahTNT Thursday Night Torah With Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Updated: Jan 14th, 2011 2:48 AM
Dear Friends,
I have been asked to provide a distilled version of the Shayla for those who may not have the time (or patience) to review the entire elaborate query. To meet those sincere needs, please find an extremely abbreviated description of tonight's topic, followed below by the more extensively described question for ... Read More
TorahTNT-Thursday Night Torah With Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Updated: Dec 26th, 2010 2:48 AM
One of strangest customs (at least to me) that exist in the Torah world, is the "NITTEL NACHT" custom practiced by a number of Jews, predominantly, but not all, by Chassidic Jews, to refrain from learning Torah on "Nittel Nacht", or on what most of the world calls "XMAS EVE".
Yes, you heard right: SOME HAVE THE CUSTOM TO ... Read More
TorahTNT (Thursday Night Torah)- Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz
Updated: Nov 29th, 2010 6:04 PM
You are a Rov/Rabbi of a community in a small American town, perhaps far away from one of the large urban "Jew-centric" population centers. You are happy to have a Shabbos Minyan and indeed through your efforts you have gathered a nice Shabbos morning following and Shul attendance. At a Bar Mitzva during the week before ... Read More
TorahChizuk For Today
Posted: Nov 9th, 2010 6:36 PM
As I was sitting on the plane, I could not help but notice the man on my left. He was consuming a treife (unkosher) cutlet. As I settled back to wait until he finished eating his meal, I noticed the name on the wrapping covering his treif-as-treif-can-be meal. It was a Jewish one.
"Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude ... Read More
TorahRav Aharon Kotler zt”l, Today 48th Yahrtzeit
Updated: Nov 9th, 2010 2:39 PM
By Rabbi Shad Kagan
Rav Aharon Kotler was born in Sislovitz, White Russia, in 5652 (1891) and passed away in New York City, on 2 Kislev, 5723 (1962). During his years in Europe - as Rosh Yeshivah in Kletzk, and his later years in America - as Rosh Yeshivah of Bais Medrash Govoha, in Lakewood, New Jersey, he was a dominant ... Read More
TorahVideo: The Shmuz On Parshas Chayei Sarah
Updated: Oct 30th, 2010 11:58 PM
Rav Bentzion Shafier has impacted thousands of people with his talks and lectures, and especially with his innovative “Shmuz,” a mussar shmuess that draws on Torah, Gemara and the meforshim, but also brings in lessons from science, history and inspiring life stories of famous and not-so-famous individuals. There are ... Read More
TorahReader's Question: Bracha Right Outside The School Bathroom
Posted: Oct 20th, 2010 11:31 PM
Question:
I work in a school where the water fountain is right outside the bathroom.
The actual toilets are in stalls. The stalls are probably 8 feet away from the fountain but the entrance to the bathroom is not.
Is this a problem considering one is not supposed to saya Bracha / think divrie kedusha within 8 feet of ... Read More
TorahNewly Discovered Works Of Posek Hador Rav Moshe Feinstein To Be Published
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010 9:29 PM
A trove of unpublished manuscripts from the late gadol and posek hador, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l, has been discovered and is being readied for publication in a series of seforim.
Included are Rav Moshe’s writings on the entire Shas, as well as hundreds of Responsa on complex halachic issues. Some of the materials date ... Read More
