When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means ...
El Al, the Israeli National Airline, has begun to offer Torah, Talmud and Jewish law lessons on its long-haul flights, via a platform specially prepared for it by Yeshiva University, an Orthodox ...
Dr. Golub, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Cincinnati, wrote this open letter in reply to an article by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver in the Bulletin November 18. Dr. Silver’s article attracted ...
In effect, the Haredi world has taken one crucial limb of the old Jewish body – the beit midrash – and tried to live inside ...
In Becoming Godly – Integrating Torah and Psychology to Guide us in Emulating Hashem (Mosaica Press), Rabbi Dr. Yosef Sokol, ...
NEW YORK — Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, who took a small wedding-invitation print shop and turned it into ArtScroll Mesorah, the leading publisher of prayer books and volumes of Torah and Talmud in the ...
A mishnah we recite every morning (Pe’ah 1:1) lists things “that have no measure” – i.e., whose ultimate reward is in the World to Come – including lovingkindness, honoring one’s parents, and the ...
As a rabbi who has spent many years learning and teaching Talmud to life to students of all ages and backgrounds, many people have asked me to comment on Miriam Anzovin’s Daf Reactions on TikTok. As I ...
(JTA) — Is it appropriate to call an ancient rabbi a “legendary hottie”? To use “thirst” in the online sense? To translate one Talmudic voice replying to another as, “Oh my God, what the actual f–k is ...
After a decade-long break, I am back to studying Talmud. It was my friend Ben who suggested it, about a year ago. “We should learn Gemara sometime,” he said, using the traditional term for Talmud. It ...