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Hilchos Chanukah #5 – Menorah Lighting in Shul
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Anyone who studies the life of Yitzchak is puzzled, even shocked by one of the opening lines of this week’s parsha: (כח) וַיֶּאֱהַב יִצְחָק אֶת עֵשָׂו כִּי צַיִד בְּפִיו וְרִבְקָה אֹהֶבֶת אֶת יַעֲקֹב: Yitzchak loved Esav because there was meat in his mouth. It is a line that is almost impossible to understand. How […]
Vayera 5782 – Lot s Ambivalence and the Importance of Knowing Ourselves
The Torah does not have a word for ambivalence. It does, however, have a TUNE, or really, a MUSICAL NOTE for it. It is called the Shalsheles. The shalsheles appears only 4 times in the entire torah and explains Rav Yosef Ibn Kaspi that each time it is used, it reflects an existential crisis within the individual […]
Yevamos Daf 75.1
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Yevamos Daf 75.2
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Yevamos Daf 75.3
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Yevamos Daf 76.1
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Lech Lecha 5782 – Because We re Different, We re Ivrim
In the mid-1950s, The Long Beach rosh yeshivah, Rav Yitzchak Feigelstock was asked by Rav Aharon Kotler, the founding Rosh Yeshiva of the Lakewood Yeshiva, to accompany him on a hot summer day from Lakewood to a meeting in Philadelphia, pertaining to the founding of the Philadelphia Yeshivah. As they were being driven back […]
Breishis 5782
In the early years of Rabbi Norman Lamm’s tenure as President of YU, the school faced a financial crisis that almost closed down the institution. The Board met in an emergency meeting at the Manhattan office of the Chairman of the Board. Rabbi Lamm presided over the meeting. In the middle of the meeting […]