by Rebbetzin Leah Kohn | Mar 8, 2024 | Beginner
Part I: “DO NOT FORESAKE THE TORAH OF YOUR MOTHER” (PROVERBS 1:8): RABBI MEIR SHAPIRO’S ATTACHMENT TO HIS MOTHER’S ADVICE In the days of Rav Meir Shapiro’s boyhood – the last decade of the nineteenth century – Jewish learning...
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Mar 6, 2024 | Beginner
Seven things apply to an uncultured person (Heb: ‘golem’), and seven to a wise person. A wise person does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom or years; he does not interrupt his fellow; he does not rush to respond; he asks relevant...
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Mar 1, 2024 | Beginner
[Law 1] Since every person has free will, as we have explained, a person should make the effort to repent and to shake his sins off his hands so that he will die in a state of penitence (lit., ‘he will die and he will be a master of repentance (ba’al...
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Feb 28, 2024 | Beginner
Ten things were created on the Sabbath eve at twilight. They are: the mouth of the earth [which swallowed Korach and his co-conspirators] (Numbers 16:32), the mouth of the well [which accompanied Israel in the desert], the mouth of the donkey [which rebuked Balaam]...
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld | Feb 23, 2024 | Beginner
[Note: The first part of this law I translated in the previous class.] Isn’t it written in the Torah, ‘[And [G-d] said to Abraham, ‘Know well that your descendants will be strangers in a land which is not theirs] and they will enslave them and...