יום שבת, ח׳ תשרי תשפ״זSaturday, September 19, 2026
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By Marc Gronich
The governor keeps telling anyone who will listen how close his father and he have been toward members of the Orthodox Jewish community for more than 30 years. The governor has to understand what was true once may not be true today.
Is it ever appropriate for a husband to put his foot down with his wife or a wife with her husband? Or is compromise the answer no matter what the issue is?
Hashem in His infinite wisdom, sent us from the heavens above the holy Torah, down to us so that we may learn, grow and purify ourselves.
Now we are faced with a different challenge. How do we fit our newfound Shabbos, filled with reinvigorated ruchniyus and marked by a greater focus on family, into this recently changed and mostly positive reality?
Detached Or Unrelated ‘He Made an Asheirah Tree Into a Ladder…’ (Eruvin 78b)
Without fail, as I would approach the curve and continue on the sidewalk that was near the road, there would be one or two squirrels recklessly darting into the road, pausing and darting back as they sensed a car driving by.
My first day at the high school was an eye-opener. As I walked into the large entrance room, I suddenly heard a door open. I heard a teacher scream at a student and physically throw him out of the class. What a welcoming!
By Marc Gronich
While trying to hold together a congregation of first generation Americans and new immigrants arriving from Europe post-World War II, at age 25, Halpern embarked on a career to serve his country.
Question: Since G-d knows the future, isn’t our choice very limited? If so, how can man be faulted for any missteps he makes? Zvi Kirschner
Don’t get stuck on the “who” of the feedback. Instead, focus on the “what.”
By us learning Torah, the world will see that there is a Hashem and that He is righteous.
Daily, he would lie in a coffin to remind himself of the day of death and dispel any thoughts of haughtiness.
I can post a sign about the sefer, said Moshe, but I’m hesitant about the money. It's a big city with a wide variety of people; I don't want to start getting phone calls from strange people asking me about an envelope of money.
There are many stories about his devotion to his students, his deep concern for everyone, his endless good deeds, and his fascinating educational approach.
No voter would be able to remember when the Court was smaller than 40 justices, much less just nine.
Campaigns are also resorting more to e-mail blasts and text messages. These forms of communication are helpful in collecting small donations, but too many digital messages can result in voter fatigue or – worse – can cause voters to unsubscribe.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
The snake’s incitement and the aesthetic enticement of the fruit led to Chava’s and then to Adam’s self-control failure.
You believe you are all interchangeable at best and at worst the least shiny penny in a pocketful of change.
Life is a series of tests. Yet, every day we ask Hashem in the morning, “Al tivi’einu lo lidei nisayon – Do not lead us to a test.” What kind of a request is this? Isn’t that avoiding the purpose of life?
Missing out on the candy bags? KDT had us covered. The shul set up a “pekalach swap” whereby every KDT family was tasked with delivering a candy bag to another family in the shul.
Kayin, a prophet, sank to the lowest level and committed murder.
The message I want to give over is that people should love themselves for who they are. One should not define her happiness by what other people define as a “perfect size.”
Even those never arrested lived lives of constant fear and privation, deprived of basic necessities, often losing close relatives to arrest, exile, and summary execution.
Remind the children (and their parents) that we only eat at the table at Bubby’s house. If you keep saying this (if needed) in a calm and happy voice, the kids will likely comply and not take any offense.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Kayin does not deny personal responsibility. He does not say, “It was not me,” or “It was not my fault.” He denies moral responsibility.
Unlike his predecessor, Trump has not snubbed the Israeli prime minister. He has not required him to sit waiting for him for hours at the White House or forced him to exit from the back door between garbage bags.
By Tzvi Fishman
The medical team at the hospital reported that his situation was dangerous. Then he began using our Kinor Lev method according to my telephone instructions.
It was unfortunate that the judge was not really interested in Schick’s legal arguments, referring instead to the national judicial trend in similar cases to defer to the state.
Restrictions on outdoor weddings and protests have been lifted. While it's unclear how many people can protest at a wedding, 20 people are allowed at weddings and 20 million people are allowed at protests.
Locking down individual neighborhoods in a city, aside from bankrupting stores, actually increases the chance of the virus spreading.
Can Catholic hospitals be required to provide abortions or to pay for employee health insurance that includes contraception services or provide gender-altering surgery?
In his first essay, a well received article published in The Orient (1844-45), he emerged as a powerful champion of traditional Orthodoxy and, as per his mentor, an opponent of Reform Judaism.
Is following sports a waste of time or harmless pleasure?
Avraham had a yeshiva background his whole life, and has a soft spot for others in need. The 5 other young men he has working on his farm, are boys that couldn’t find themselves in regular yeshiva settings and were headed for the streets to try their luck and see what would come up.
News From Across The Pond.
When all is said and done, this reviewer counted more than 10 different opinions on where the halachic dateline ought to be placed – all of which are thoroughly considered in Crossing the Dateline.
The entire time we were all on the rock, we were in darkness, since we were trying to conserve the cellphone lights. Besides, there was nothing to see except the night sky, which was easier to see in the dark.
By Eve Glover
His magnificent gold and silver plated sculptures – exquisitely crafted with painstaking detail – have been given as gifts to world leaders and dignitaries.
While this story carries a painful and penetrating message, you might ask, “Rabbi Weiss, what are you advocating? That we shouldn’t dance on Simchas Torah?” Of course not!
This rare Yiddish edition was translated anonymously, and since a romantic view of the New World was common in prospective Jewish immigrants...
The most important time of life is the present moment since the past is gone and, as for the future -- who knows what it will bring?
Question: May one eat etrog jelly on Simchat Torah? A Reader Miami, FL
I doubted myself: Was I the crazy one? Why am I alone in a wilderness of torment while everyone else laughs all the way to the bank?
By Tzvi Fishman
Since 1986, we’ve been working to uncover the ancient site of the City of David via archeological digs in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
What’s the point of asking his children to stay just one more day after which they will leave anyway?
A likeable Democrat will do as much harm to our country as any other Democrat.
Although every set of three leaves on a hadas usually grows from one base, R’ Acha opted for a less beautiful hadas in deference to his teacher.
Do Hotels Need Eruvin? ‘A Separate Contribution From Each Company’ (Eruvin 72b)
I know my father (who never missed saying Kaddish for his parents) would have agreed with my decision. I also know that my father would have been furious with Mr. Backman’s op-ed.
With Sukkot evenings as delightful as this, I no longer understand the age-old dvar Torah about why Sukkot is celebrated in the autumn instead of the spring.
“[W]e were successful in the spring and we will be successful once again,” the group said in a statement released on Monday.
So the mayor confirms up front that he is aiming to make a political point to Trump supporters.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the Gra's students moved to Tzfat where he dressed as a Sefardic Jew and learned Arabic.
It is vital for voters to know what Biden thinks about packing the Supreme Court and eliminating the filibuster.
Sadly, it seems clear to us that Arizona State was anxious to avoid coming off as not being in sync with the anti-police, institutional racism movement.
It's not uncommon for Bennett to do very well in the polls and then not perform on election day.
Kabbalistically, seven circuits represents completion and perfection, particularly with respect to G-d’s creation of the world.
Is it appropriate for a man to wear cologne?
News From Across The Pond.
By Marc Gronich
During a Tuesday news conference, the governor said he deeply respects and has close ties to the Orthodox Jewish community that go back more than 30 years. Cuomo said the crackdown results from love and respect for Orthodox Jews.
Cuomo, de Blasio, & co. are nothing less than modern-day Greeks and Romans. Do as they say, and they will be nice. Stand by the Torah, and they will destroy you.
Do American Jews not know how much Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the rest of the left loathe Israel?
Spreading The Wealth ‘Giving to Only One Poor Person’ (Eruvin 63a)
For those who have lost their regular routines, who go to sleep and wake up with uncertainty of what tomorrow will bring, it is likely that they are experiencing anxiety.
By T. Gestetner
The conditions at the school Devorah was employed at were great. Perhaps she too would be privileged to finally find her calling.
When a person has a secure attachment style, they feel confident in their relationship and in their partner.
Encourage women to look down on men, to laugh at them, and be horrified by them, while simultaneously encouraging them to search for a husband they can look up to and whose helpmate they can become.
The Torah completely blows us away with the statement that the enemy will come “ka’asher yideh hanesher – like the eagle sweeps,” a perfect description of the sudden attack of the two huge airliners.
Question: A while back you wrote at length about ibur, the intercalation of the year, and noted that we rely today on a fixed calendar rather than the testimony of witnesses to determine the starting days of various yamim tovim. My question is – and I’m sure I’m not the first to ask this: Why do we continue to celebrate two days of yom tov nowadays when we have a fixed calendar and know exactly when each festival starts? Aryeh Roth
His general knowledge drew the ire of many chassidim, and one can find sharp attacks against him in chassidic writings of the day and equally vicious remarks of the Maharatz Chayes towards the chassidim of his era.
Lifsh immediately attempted to pry the car off the children. His efforts were in vain as a mob began to attack him.
Even if for some people the esrog is kosher, if it’s pasul for the buyer, it’s also mekach ta’us.
Come. Step out of your home, your stress and anxious moments. Take a seat under the stars. Feel the kanfei haShechinah. Treasure your blessings. Cherish every day.
In true “Big Brother” fashion, the Shin Bet finds contact points between Covid-19 patients and others using cell phone tracking systems generally employed for counterterrorism operations.
Often, the well-meaning suggestions offered at home by siblings and parents on whom you should be dating, and how you should be dating, only cause the single sibling pain and anxiety.
This is the time for one-to-one relationships. Life is no longer a matter of quantity, but of quality.
Emunah is like produce starting to fill out but still far from ripe.
If it can be determined that your chanukiah is an authentic original, the value would be $2,500 -$3,500.
The Torah’s word for betrothal is “erusin,” and its cognates appear throughout the Bible. The Mishnah, however, more often uses a different word: “kiddushin.”
It has to be a piece that makes my jaw drop and my breath stop short. I’m literally a sight to behold when I shop for the store – very entertaining to watch!
We are given an opportunity to sanctify the mundane in the spirituality of the sukkah.
Since a sukkah is a diras aray, a temporary structure, we don’t need a reminder of the dwelling place being temporary compared to Olam Habah.
It seems unlikely that even the stringent opinion requires that sukkah walls be completely motionless when a wind blows.
Tischler told The Jewish Press that the city’s intent in holding the press conference in Boro Park (on 18th Ave. and 56th St.) was “to embarrass us.”
By Marc Gronich
If you look at those clusters and you look at those zip codes, you will see there’s an overlap with large Orthodox Jewish communities. That is a fact.
Together with her husband, she organized the historic 1968 Passover Seder at Hebron’s Park Hotel, which marked the first Jewish holiday celebrated in Hebron since the expulsion of Jews from the city several decades earlier.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Sukkot celebrates the dual nature of Jewish faith: the universality of G-d and the particularity of Jewish existence.
These days conservatives want courts to merely determine what provisions of the Constitution and statutes require – that is, deduce the plain meaning of legislative policy choices, with the president enforcing them.
True, the mayor and his administration have pulled back substantially from the April comments singling out parts of the Jewish community which began to put a Jewish face on the pandemic. They now speak mostly of “hot zones” of enhanced numbers of cases.
His call for an international conference reveals that he has not abandoned his perennial, if unrealistic, efforts to avoid resolving issues directly with Israel.
September 18, 2026 
