Articles All articles

It is an often-cited truism that the Orthodox community, most ironically, tends to place much…

When tragedy strikes there is a tendency to search for some rational explanation as we subsequently…

“Mar Ukva said: I am, with regard to this matter, like vinegar, son of wine, with…

Excitement and consistency: We tend to view these terms as contradictory. Man gets excited over…

Purim celebrates the eternity of the Jewish people. Despite exile and dispersion, genocidal enemies…

“Because of this the children of Israel, to this day, do not eat the thigh muscle that is on…

Rabbinic debates are not for the faint-hearted. They can be most intense, and sadly, can lead to…

In our last post, we spoke about geneivat da’at, generating false goodwill, in the…

“The laws of Shabbat…are like a mountain being held up by a thread” (Chagigah…

One would not normally associate the prohibition to eat the gid hanashe, the sciatic nerve,…

“G-d declared to Moshe, Go down [from the mountain] for the people whom you brought out…

One of most famous mitzvot of the Torah is that of shiluach haken, the obligation to send away…

One of the teachings that is ingrained in us from a young age is that every letter, and surely…

The least observed of biblical holidays is undoubtedly Rosh Chodesh. As a holiday based in the…

Symbols play a crucial role in self and group identification and affect almost everything we do. Be…

Dan Arielly begins his best-selling book, Predictably Irrational, by noting that for we humans…

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot” (Shemot…

That the “Orthodox” community is more careful about kosher food than kosher money is…