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Torah July 28, 2025
Living Hearts And Hearts Of Stone (Yechezkel 11:19)
For thirty years now I have been the rav of a wonderful minyan. Our men pray together, enjoy a Shabbos kiddush together, and then learn...
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Torah July 28, 2025
Rosh Chodesh Av: A Powerful Gathering Of American Rabbinic Leaders for Reflection, Transformation, And Future Building
The Igud HaRabbonim/Rabbinical Alliance of America (RAA) convened its impactful Rosh Chodesh AvConference at Ahi Ezer Yeshiva Congregation on Ocean Parkway this past...
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Torah July 28, 2025
Rav Kook’s Message For Tishah B’Av 5785
“All the Roman commanders who saw the internal conflict among the Jews viewed it as a gift from heaven and...
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Torah July 28, 2025
Chazon: A Tremendous Light
The grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, Rebbe Baruch of Medzhibozh, zy’a, was known as a passionate and fiery eved Hashem as well as...
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Torah July 28, 2025
The Sharp River
Although the Book of Numbers delineates the Holy Land’s eastern border as following the Jordan River (Num. 34:12), the Book of Deuteronomy envisions a...
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Torah July 28, 2025
The Twenty-Second Day
Each year on Tishah B’Av, we confront our nation’s deepest wounds, reliving the destruction, exile, and suffering that have shaped...
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Torah July 28, 2025
Bnei Brak the Capital City of Torah in Israel
By Nison Gordon Translated by P Samuels Today’s Bnei Brak With Its Yeshivos And Kollelim An Unforgettable Shabbos in Bnei...
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Torah July 28, 2025
Just a Little Bit Longer: Waiting For Geulah
By Gila Arnold Meira wasn’t particularly anxious when she didn’t become pregnant right away. She was a young newlywed, she...
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Torah July 28, 2025
When Two Are Better Than One
By Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Schwartz Book Reviews: Nafshi BiShe’elati: The Halakhot of mental health (By Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig and Dr....
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Uncategorized Torah July 23, 2025
Achieving Moral Clarity In A Confused World
By Sivan Rahav Meir I was privileged to speak at the first event on behalf of the Friends of Ariel...
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Torah July 23, 2025
The Melitzer Rebbe: A Legacy In Song
By Dov Bergman Not every rebbe led with a voice. But when Rabbi Yitzchak Horowitz sang, people didn’t just listen—they...
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Torah July 23, 2025
Marking the Launch of the Rabbi Norman Lamm Digital Archive
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky It has been nearly two years since Simchat Torah fell on October 7. The massacre...
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Torah July 23, 2025
Kabbalah And Holachah
By Akiva Lane In the Temple when an animal is offered as a sacrifice, four steps are done. Shechitah (slaughtering of the...
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Torah July 23, 2025
Give Me Yavneh And Its Sages
In the second century, the Romans martyred Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon by wrapping a Torah scroll around his body and burning them...
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Torah July 23, 2025
Bnei Brak the Capital City of Torah in Israel
By Nison Gordon Translated by P Samuels Today’s Bnei Brak With Its Yeshivos And Kollelim An Unforgettable Shabbos in Bnei...
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Torah July 23, 2025
The Shaar’s 2025 $1 Million Neshama Campaign Launches
There are campaigns that raise money. And then there are campaigns that raise souls. The Shaar’s Neshama Campaign is not...
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Torah July 23, 2025
Messianics
As I walked to give my Shabbos shiur recently, I spotted an older rabbi walking with his aide, headed in my direction....
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Torah July 22, 2025
A Significant Peace
The final Mishnah of the first chapter of Pirkei Avot presents three values essential for sustaining the world. The first two are din (judgment) and emet (truth); the third...
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