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Torah July 1, 2025

Words For War

At the end of Parashat Chukat, the Jews fought their inaugural battles in the long war to conquer the Holy Land....

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Torah July 1, 2025

Wellsprings Of Torah

The Suvalker Rov, Rav Dovid Lifshitz, zt’l, was the intellectual and spiritual scion of Lithuanian Torah greatness. As one of the...

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Torah June 30, 2025

Common Ground: A Conversation With Rabbi Arieh Friedner

“Common Ground, authored by Rabbi Arieh Friedner, is a transformative guide to unlocking the secret to Jewish unity. Drawing from...

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Torah June 26, 2025

The Triumph Of Israel And The Spirit Of The Jewish People

oldBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Israelis, Jews, and decent people around the world breathed a sigh of relief and were filled...

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Torah June 26, 2025

Sleepless Nights

It was 1946 and R’ Chaim Tzvi Schwartz, a young survivor and Munkatcher chassid who had lost his family in the war,...

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Torah June 26, 2025

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

Rabbi Chaim with Montana Atty. Gen. Austin Knudsen, MHP Col. Kurt Sager, and Bozeman PD Capt. Joe Swanson t happened.  This...

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Torah June 24, 2025

When Light Alone Cannot Dispel Darkness

Korach presented an internal Jewish conflict that had to be decisively addressed, and it was. After Korach instigated a rebellion,...

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Uncategorized Torah June 23, 2025

Tokef HaTalmud: Battling the Maskilim in Slovakia

A most fascinating sefer entitled Tokef HaTalmud (The Power of the Talmud) was published in 1849 in Ofen (Buda), Hungary. The sefer was written in response...

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Torah June 23, 2025

A Non-Prophet Entity

When the Shunamite woman (Melachim II, 4:9) encountered the prophet Elisha, she remarked to her husband that she had seen a...

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This Week's Edition Torah June 23, 2025

Faith’s Role In A Breakthrough Moment

The past week has been both exhilarating and dizzying. Each day brings a surge of euphoria. With Hashem’s help, the...

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Torah This Week's Edition June 23, 2025

Growing the Fringes (Part 2/2)

In Part I of this essay, we explored the words tzitzit and gedilim, offering a possible way of understanding the nuanced difference between...

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Torah June 19, 2025

A Nation Rising And Roaring Like A Lion

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Several times over the last few days, I was talking to someone in Israel—my daughter, sister,...

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Torah June 19, 2025

Faith Under Fire

By Sivan Rahav Meir I’m happy to share a small moment of Jewish civilian heroism—one of so many during these...

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Torah June 19, 2025

Working With Children With Disabilities During War Time In Israel

By Toby Klein Greenwald Courtesy of Beit Issie Shapiro Even before Israel’s miraculous attacks on Iran, parents of children with...

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Torah June 18, 2025

Nuclear Jews

By Yochanan Gordon Every Jew is a spiritual force of cosmic proportions. Our enemies know it; do we? There are...

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Torah June 17, 2025

Our G-d And Our People

During these very difficult days, not only do others challenge our sacred and inherent connection to the holy land of Eretz Yisrael,...

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Torah June 16, 2025

War In Israel: Faith Written In The Heavens

We often think of faith in Hashem as something instinctive—either we have it or we don’t. But emunahisn’t just a feeling...

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Torah June 16, 2025

A Desirable Land

Rosh yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Yerushalayim, Rav Tzvi Yehudah HaKohen Kook, was one of the most influential leaders in modern Jewish history....

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