יום שלישי, ז׳ אב תשפ״וTuesday, July 21, 2026
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Rabbi Moshe Kurtz serves as the rabbi of Cong. Sons of Israel in Allentown, PA.
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We keep the Torah simply because G-d said so. If we can begin to scratch the surface of the thought-process behind it – great. But that is just additional flavoring, a cherry on top.
There is a fundamental difference between the Torah we learn and the other disciplines that we study. In mathematics, my effort is immaterial. Either I know the equations or I do not.
When a rabbi's output of political letters exceeds their published Torah scholarship, it creates cause for concern.
On Tisha B’Av, Rav Moshe would wear a threadbare garment that was beginning to tear. One could see the grief in his eyes and his longing for the yeshuah with all of his soul.
Many of us picture piety as passively throwing up our hands and allowing G-d to do the fighting on our behalf. The truth is that we are experiencing a deficiency of the chutzpah required to proudly advocate authentic Jewish values to the world (Kovetz Ma’amarim, vol. 1, p. 262).
What I love about this genre is when you realize that the decisions you make early on have significant consequences for sessions that take place weeks or months down the line.
To resolve the conflicting sources regarding the legitimacy of using a lottery as a legal mechanism, we need to investigate what legal effect a lottery would supposedly produce.
July 17, 2026 
