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By Alex Fleksher When you’re a teenager, it’s all about how long yamim noraim davening in shul is. And unwashed, uncooperative hair. When you’re newly married with...

There is a dialectical tension at play here. How do we negotiate the value of individuality and the value of community?

The chazzan started the high part a drop off-key in his nervousness, and was hapless and struggling in his high-pitched rendition of Gertner’s ‘Shabbos Hayom’.

Despite all my good intentions, I too frequently arrive at the Yom HaDin feeling barely prepared spiritually. 

“If Hashem needed an Avraham Avinu, he would not have created Bunim”

Cynicism is contagious. Cheap counterfeit emotions often are. There is a twisted thrill to sitting in the theater gallery mocking those who courageously dare to act.

Without these teachings the results can be disastrous. One could mistakenly think that an aveira makes them unworthy of Hashem’s love.

By Rabbi Shais Taub The Theodicy of the Churban In Parshas Re’eh, as the people are preparing to enter Israel, Moshe instructs them:[1] “Demolish the altars [of...

By Rabbi Mordechai Burg In Judaism, a name is not merely a handle by which we call each other. A name is a reflection of our essence....