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Torah July 16, 2025

Choosing The Path Of Faith Together

By Sivan Rahav Meir One day, I hope the children of Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen read this article. I...

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Torah July 16, 2025

Our Israel Journal

The week began with the continuation of the celebration of Maayan and Aminoam Kaplan, grandchildren of Sarah and Arnie Waldman,...

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Torah July 16, 2025

Rav Yehuda Amital: History, Faith, And Courage

Rav Yehuda Amital, born in 1924 in a small shtetl in Romania, lived through the revolutions of 20th-century Jewish history....

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Torah July 15, 2025

Pinchas: An Asinine Essay

Part II In Part I, we discussed the words chamor (domesticated donkey), pere (wild ass), and aton (a female donkey). In this installation, we continue the...

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Torah July 15, 2025

More Than Just The Chicken

The Divrei Chayim, Reb Chaim Halberstam of Tzanz, zy’a (d. 1876), was beloved for his generosity and famous for his righteousness. The poor of...

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Torah July 15, 2025

Shabbat: Understanding Rest And Creation

The Torah’s first chapter describes Hashem’s creation of the world. After detailing His creations on each of the six days,...

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Torah July 14, 2025

Multitudes Of Amud HaYomi Learners All Over The World Begin Masechta Pesachim This Week

HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, Dirshu Eruvin Siyu By Chaim Gold Did you know that if you start Masechta Pesachim this week with the...

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Torah July 14, 2025

Emergency Backup Chickens

One of the things no one tells you about having chickens is that once you’ve built an entire infrastructure in...

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Torah July 14, 2025

Becoming Torah

Are Torah-observant Jews different or do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice?  Klal Yisrael was...

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Torah July 9, 2025

The Pulpit Must Not Be A Political Podium….Most Of The Time

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg The IRS announced it will break with a long-standing rule and now allow houses of worship...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Mitzvot And Magic

Do you believe in magic? Religion is at times conflated with superstition, the mystical and magical. This makes sense, as...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Adult Kids

So apparently, there comes a time in your parenting career when you and your children disagree about whether or not...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Shabbat With Agam Berger

By Sivan Rahav Meir The accompanying photo of me with Agam and Meirav Berger was taken on motzaei Shabbat. When Agam...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Book Review: To Be Holy but Human: Reflections Upon My Rebbe, HaRav Yehuda Amital

Book Review: To Be Holy but Human: Reflections Upon My Rebbe, HaRav Yehuda Amital Rabbi Moshe Taragin. Kodesh Press, $29.95...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Journey through Pesachim begins 25 Tammuz

Hanhalas Dirshu at a meeting with HaRav Dov Landau in his home Mazel Tov Klal Yisrael! Multitudes Across the World...

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Torah July 9, 2025

Were We Saved From Destruction Without Teshuvah?

Seven Torah Perspectives on the Hashgacha Post-October 7 and the Iran War By Rabbi Aaron Zimmer For decades, Iran and...

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Torah July 7, 2025

Nelech

Ohr Torah Stone Launches “Nelech”: Transformative, Immersive Israel Experience For Modern Orthodox 10th Graders Launching in January 2026, the program...

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Torah July 7, 2025

Seeing The End From The Beginning

Bilaam, the famed prophet, was summoned to cast a supernatural curse upon our people in a desperate attempt to halt...

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