by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Apr 5, 2024 | Beginner
Great is teshuva (repentance) for it brings a person close to the Divine Presence, as it is stated, ‘Return, Israel, unto the L-rd your G-d’ (Hosea 14:2). It is [also] stated, ‘…yet you have not returned to Me, says the L-rd’ (Amos 4:6)....
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Apr 3, 2024 | Beginner
Pestilence comes to the world for death penalties mentioned in the Torah which are not in the hands of the courts [to administer] and for [the forbidden use of] Sabbatical year produce. The sword comes to the world for the delay of justice, the perversion of justice,...
by Rabbi Yisroel Belsky ztl | Apr 3, 2024 | Beginner
QUESTION 56: If my child tears a few pages in a book that I’ve taken out from the library, can I scotch tape the pages back myself, or must I tell them first to see if that’s OK with them? Once I showed them such a book and they said “Oh, that...
by Rabbi Daniel Travis | Apr 3, 2024 | Beginner
“As we told my lord [Yosef], we have an elderly father and a young [brother] who is a child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead.” (Bereshith 44:20) Rashi explains that the brothers thought Yosef was alive – so much so that when they first...
by Rabbi Daniel Travis | Apr 3, 2024 | Intermediate
“When Rav Hamnuna would ascend from the river on erev Shabbos, he would lift up his eyes to see the angels of the weekday departing and the angels of Shabbos descending” (Zohar, Terumah 136b). The Arizal infers from this that it is a mitzvah for a man to...
