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Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe lei'mor is the most commonly occurring verse of the Bible. While…

In the introduction to his responsa, Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that the Sages of each generation…

“And it will be, when the Lord, your G-d, brings you to the land He swore to your fathers, to…

In a beautiful teshuva (Orach Chaim 4 #89) written during Chanukah 1960, Rav Moshe Feinstein was…

“It is a sign between Me and the Jewish people that in ‘six days’ G-d created the…

The initial meeting between Moshe and Pharaoh did not go well. The workload placed on the poor…

That one must be Jewish to shecht an animal is not necessarily obvious. One might have…

When I mention to people that it is likely worse to smoke than to eat pork, I often get strange…

There are few, if any, semicha programs that require their students to learn shechita or…

One of the questions I am often asked by those of my students who do not keep kosher, is have you…

Over and over again the Torah warns us not to allow avodah zara, idolatry, in the Land of Israel.…

"It was for this reason that man was first created as one person [Adam]…to teach that…

In the fall of 1860, Rav Yaakov Ettlinger penned what is likely the most revolutionary responsa of…

That the role of a modern rabbi in the Western World is far different than that of the rabbi of…

One of the painful realities of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double…

Masechet Chulin, a derivative of the word chol, translates as “The Secular Tractate…

“And Yaakov ripped his garments and put sackcloth on his loins, and he mourned for his son…