Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner served as Rosh Beit Midrash of Toronto's Beit Midrash Zichron Dov from 2009 until 2023. He is the incoming Rabbi of Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park in West Hempstead, NY.
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Today’s political left and right share certain policies, but they inhabit a milieu of pain and conflict which forms a very substantive basis for feelings of hatred.
Why should human voices hold such authority in a halachic system which answers to Hashem?
How can we balance the need to build intensity, to challenge ourselves and examine ourselves, with our need to avoid the trap of turning Elul, for some people, into a month of stifling uncertainty and anxiety?


