The Yomim Tovim celebrate monumental events in Jewish history. The focus of these days is on…
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Dr. Bryna Levy to Speak at Or Chaim on Shabbat
Dr. Bryna J. Levy will be scholar in residence at the Or Chaim Minyan on Shabbat, Parshat Shoftim,…
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Shoftim: Seeking Justice
Almost always, wrongdoing requires that people work together to perpetrate such. As has been…
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Some Impressions of South African Jewry
Having just returned from the Torah in Motion African Safari, I would like to share some…
Pesachim 37: Designer Matzah
Matzah is the most basic of foods. Mix some grain with water and bake ASAP, and presto! We have the…
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Dr. Bryna Levy to Return with Rupture and Repentance: Joseph and His Brothers
Dr. Bryna J. Levy returns with another fascinating text-based study of the relationship between…
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Re'eh: Cohesive Community
The destruction of the Temple in the Year 70 caused a major historical shift regarding the focus of…
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Pesachim 35: Sleeping Through Class
I imagine I am not the only one who has dozed off during a lecture. While I might manage to pick up…
Pesachim 34: Land of Darkness
Soon after the editing of the Mishna in the land of Israel, Jewish life and learning started slowly…
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Eikev: Fear of G-d
Effort vs. result. The relative value of these two concepts is a fundamental dispute between our…
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Pesachim 30a: Economic Intervention
On the first page of the laws of Shabbat, the Mishnah Berurah discusses the problem of price…
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Pesachim 22: Time Well Spent
“Shimon Ha'amsoni—and some say, Nechemia Ha'amsoni—used to derive [laws]…
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VaEtchanan: Time for Comfort
Life is so unfair. While we believe that ultimately (and ultimately can take an eternity!) justice…
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Tisha B'Av: Greetings
“Everything is dependent on mazal, even the sefer Torah in the ark”. Certain mitzvoth…
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Pesachim 11: Telling Time
The halachic legal system is much more than a set of abstract principles or technical…
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Pesachim 9a: When In Doubt...Eat
"Two verses that contradict each other, until a third verse is found and reconciles between…
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Mattot-Massei: It's Your Land
“And Elazar the priest said: This is the law of the Torah, which the Lord commanded Moshe…
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Pesachim 7a: Who Carries Your Water?
Rav Yisrael Salanter, the 19th century founder of the mussar movement, was asked by his students…