יום שישי, י״א תמוז תשפ״וFriday, June 26, 2026
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People act not because they think it’s right; they do what they do because it’s what they want to do
What do we do when we want to be mad at God but we also want God to make it all better? Indeed, what do we do?
Rambam would also allow charity from a mumar as long as the person maintains basic belief in God and Judaism.
There is no song that tells the story of freedom like Shir HaShirim.
It is unfair to judge a 52 year old man with the glasses of a person who lives in a different world.
Adegbile was not making a moral statement by representing a man convicted of killing a cop.
Women learning Torah is becoming increasingly permissive, but women wearing tefillin is becoming increasingly stringent.
When the "offensive" statements in our Talmud were stated, no one thought they were offensive.
Both communities value using books to study their texts, and digital devices are a less preferable way for younger people to study.
Boys can play with dolls. Men can embrace their feminine side. Girls can play sports.
Some people are assuming the intentions of these women are less than perfect, but that’s complete conjecture.
Orthodox Jews are free to teach Leviticus and we are free to deny any religious rights and privileges to anyone we so choose.
What data was the ASA using to justify its boycott?
When we are dealing in non-legal matters, we are no longer concerned with precedent.
The world lost a great man last week.
If the Syrian-Greeks were not pushed out of the land, Judaism would have been lost.
Basically, the real problem is bad parenting. He calls it parental selfishness.
Megilas Taanis simply proclaims the 25th of Kislev a holiday and it is forbidden to mourn for 8 days. The text does not give a reason for the celebration.
In short, he says the whole thing was a prophetic vision, a dream. There was no physical battle.
People were literally saying that a chasid cannot write so well. It’s impossible they claimed.
Ethical and moral laws in the Torah depend on the context. Kindness and virtue largely depend on the subjective expectations of one’s friends and community.
Much of what all religions teach is magical. If one does not believe in God, then we would rightly call it all superstition.
He told me that according to a Muslim poet, children do not truly belong to their parents. Instead, parents are the vessel through which children flow into the world.
Ruth Colian is running as a Haredi woman for political office.
The Pope is saying that actions are far more important than faith. This is particularly ironic coming from Catholicism.
Fact checking leadership means asking tough questions.
The Talmud is making a general statement for which there are more exceptions that situations where the rule applies.
Trying to explain Holocaust deaths as tikkun and a way of cleansing a soul is offensive.
Very few middle aged and older people consider themselves ultra-orthodox. It’s a youth movement.
According to the Torah Temimah...
Spontaneity and quirkiness have their place but a sermon is neither the time nor place for either of those.
It’s even more strange when the jokes come at our holiest times of the year.
Organic dating has its own set of problems that the shidduch system can help avoid.
Dvar Torah for Nitzavim Vayelech.
Rabbis have to stop dismissing everything that comes from outside the Beis Medrash.
Historians currently assume the Bible was written between 720 BCE and 587 BCE, between the destruction of the Northern Kingdom and the destruction of Jerusalem.
A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.
The proper response for almost the entire population of planet Earth to these eternal questions about man-made meat is “I am not qualified to render an opinion on this matter.”
Certain books are excised from the subscription, in order to reinforce an imaginary history where nothing was inconsistent with Haredi Judaism.
The article argues that while naturally aligned with their fellow orthodox Jews, women from the modern orthodox community in Israel are finding themselves aligned with secular feminists.
A rabbi who writes controversial things becomes international news.
Why does a opinion in the Talmud say the last verses in Devarim were not written by Moses? Was it the easiest solution to a very obvious problem?
Categorizing all black people as one large group where the acts of one black person in Florida somehow tell us something about a different black person in Seattle is racist.
Can we hear the agony in his words? Can we step into his shoes and experience his torment?
Human nature is such that hearing something over and over again for forty years will inevitably have an impact on the person.
The gist of Rabbi Shafran’s argument was that Rabbi Sacks was criticizing a legitimate form of orthodox Judaism and was doing so from a place of ignorance.
Many great Jewish thinkers have described Jewish prayer as a form of meditation.
This kind of stringency borders on silliness.
There is no real theological reason that tznius be heavily codified in Jewish law while other areas of our lives that require modesty are left to our whims and desires.
It’s really not that different than the situation in Israel with the charedim. Both situations need insiders to make the change happen.
In order to truly appreciate Torah, one must be a master over one’s spirit as well.
Mormons are expected to be chaste in every possible way and this can be particularly difficult for young men.
The NY Times has a very (appropriately) one-sided article on the Baruch Lebovits and Sam Kellner situation.
The revelation continues as the world progressed and however the Torah was emended or edited after Sinai was part of revelation.
For some, guilt by association is actual guilt. For these people, who you know and with whom you associate determine your credibility.
There is standing prohibition in Jewish law against sharing anything revealed in private conversation.
For deviating from the orthodox scientific position, Nagel has been abused, maligned, outcast, and insulted.
The problem is that Tuna Beigel is a pejorative.
June 26, 2026 
