by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Mar 20, 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 Dovid Rosenfeld | Mar 15, 2024 | Beginner
Do not say that teshuva (repentance) is only for sins which involve doing an action, such as adultery, theft, or burglary. [Rather,] just as a person must repent these, so too he must examine his bad qualities and repent over them, [such as] from anger, hatred,...
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Mar 15, 2024 | Beginner
Seven types of punishments come to the world on account of seven basic transgressions. If some people tithe and some do not, a famine caused by [partial] drought will result; some will be hungry and some will be sated. If people have determined not to tithe, a famine...
by Rabbi Yisroel Belsky ztl | Mar 8, 2024 | Beginner
QUESTION 54: I was shopping at Pathmark with my wife and was ready to get into a check-out line. I saw that the express lines that accept 12 items or less were fairly short, and the non-express lines were very backed up, possibly because the store was short on help....
by Rabbi Daniel Travis | Mar 8, 2024 | Beginner
These are the chronicles of Yaakov: Yosef was 17 years old. As a lad, he would tend the sheep with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Since his brothers [the sons of Leah] would make fun of them [the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah],...
