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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…

“It is said of the olah sacrifice of cattle, ‘rei’ach nichoach, an offering made…

The Sochochover Rebbe, in the introduction to his classic work on the laws of Shabbat, Eglei…

“And you shall place on the table showbread before Me tamid, at all times” (Shemot…

“Therefore, the Jewish people will not eat the gid hanasheh, sciatic nerve, that is…

“At that time, the Lord said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first…

The opening Mishna of masechet Megillah teaches that those living in small rural communities could…

“And there was a famine in the land, aside from the first famine that was in the days of…

The Jewish people are a most contentious one. We argue about (almost?) everything and then…