Rabbi Jack Abramowitz serves as Torah Content Editor at the Orthodox Union and Educational Correspondent for Jew in the City. He is the author of nine books, including The Nach Yomi Companion, Ask Rabbi Jack and The Complete Targum Onkelos.
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Full disclosure: I’m a geek. By that I mean that I read math theory books for fun. And, having a long career in kiruv, I have used metaphors from quantum mechanics in my presentations, to varying degrees of success.
Mitchell First has given me something I never had and didn’t realize I was missing: a mature perspective on Shalom Aleichem.
When you ask your rabbi a question, you don’t expect it to appear in the shul bulletin for others to read. Ivanka and Jared's shaila about attending inaugural balls on Shabbos should be no different.


