יום שבת, כ״ב תשרי תשפ״זSaturday, October 3, 2026
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On the contrary! Israel needs to send a “Thank You” card to SNL for publicizing that fact. Yes, Israel takes care of Jews first – and we’re very proud of that!
Halacha tells us to obey the law of the land (Nedarim 28a), but this instruction applies only to material matters, not to spiritual matters.
We all remember as children waiting to spin our gragger or stomp our feet when the name of Haman was mentioned during the megillah reading.
The family suddenly realized that giving on his behalf while he was sedated may not have counted, so they called Rabbi Dayan and asked him.
By Farley Weiss
We spoke out against white supremacy on the Right and the anti-Semitism of Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar on the Left.
The Purim Edition 2021
By Tzvi Fishman
How long must Jews be second class citizens in our own Jewish homeland?
Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) writes that “masveh” and “suto” are related to “stav” (autumn or fall) and refer to soft, spongy fabrics worn to insulate oneself from cold weather.
Unlike carnivals in other countries, which were known for their licentiousness and violence, the Adloyadas were characterized by proper behavior.
The declared intent of the curfew is to prevent large drunken parties/festive gatherings in the evenings. The upcoming video footage of attempted enforcement will be incredible!
Should a lawyer defend someone in court whom he thinks is guilty? What if the man is truly despicable (e.g., a child killer)?
When I think of Queen Esther I usually feel sad for her. Everyone was saved and she had to stay with Achashverosh.
News From Across The Pond.
By Marc Gronich
Personally, I have thankfully never received the governor’s wrath. In fact, I feel I have had a welcoming relationship with the Cuomo family.
One of the book’s most creative and powerful essays discusses the so-called “IKEA effect,” which asserts that people value things in accordance with the amount of effort they put into getting or building them.
Creating schedules and setting timers can help those with ADHD harness their natural energy and direct it towards their passion.
One question is about Marie Kondo’s cleaning philosophy... Does the animism that underlies Kondo’s philosophy invalidate her overall method?
By Ann Goldberg
I finally got it ( I think). It wasn’t enough to know that Hashem runs the world. I have to let go and leave it up to Him.
From the world of academia to the world of the media, no criticism of the Left’s worldview will be tolerated. Under this new administration things can only get worse.
Hashem's House Is No Different (Pesachim 94a)
By Tzvi Fishman
You do not need 100 percent to achieve herd immunity, and I don’t think we should chase after it.
It is time to move on. What he hopes for or wants at this point is not your concern and only time will tell for him.
By Nina Adler
Jenna’s writing is honest, raw, and moving. She describes the struggle to adapt to a new way of life for her and for her family.
The Gemara then says that certain people – including teachers, shochtim, doctors, and mohalim, whose malpractice cannot be undone – do not need to be warned before being fired since they’re considered to have already been warned.
By Chaim Lax
Dr. Rutland does a fantastic job at using Liebler's life story as a springboard to introduce the reader to the dynamics of the Australian Jewish community in the latter half of the 20th century.
My nutritionist has taught me this invaluable lesson and for the first time in my life, I am not on a diet, but rather I am living a healthy, balanced lifestyle that includes all food groups.
Many argued that it would be downright dangerous not to attend as their absence might raise the monarch’s ire after all the trouble he went through to accommodate their needs.
The left knows it can only win elections when the majority of Americans are ungrateful.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Concepts such as marit ayin enjoin us to be “inauthentic” and to put on a show for the outside, even when we know there is nothing inherently wrong with our actions.
In Mishnaic times, the Megillah was read as early as the 11th of Adar in some towns.
After his passing, the library changed hands a few times but was eventually cataloged in Koheleth David and subsequently purchased by the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1829.
It is inconceivable to believe that when we exited Egypt everyone in Israel had the same views on every subject and did not have the distinctiveness and uniqueness that make our people, and each individual, so important.
By Avi Ciment
While YU is hardly immune to outside forces and is no guarantee of anyone's frumkeit, it is still the best option around for anyone looking for a great environment fostering Torah Umadda.
As my kids and I have taken daily walks for a month now, it is not an exaggeration to say that we literally know every crack in the sidewalk within our allowed kilometer.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
That, I believe, is what the Sages meant when they said, “Call them not ‘your children’ but ‘your builders’” (Brachot 64a). People have to become builders if they are to grow from childhood to adulthood.
A Jew’s life is supposed to be governed by deliberation, forethought, mental preparedness, and understanding, not impulsivity or “living for the moment.”
I disagree. I believe 2021 could prove to be a decisive year for Zionism in America, and it’s up to those of us who consider ourselves Zionists to decide whether to be incapacitated by worry or move forward with confidence.
The specter of being hauled into a Rabbinical Court upon arrival in Israel sufficed to convince a number recalcitrant husbands to reconsider their position.
By Tzvi Fishman
The sole purpose of all the afflictions which smite us in our exile is to arouse us to return to our Holy Land….
Question: Is one allowed to use an electric slow cooker (such as a Crock-Pot) that fits into another pot for the purpose of maintaining hot food on Shabbos? M. Goldblum
Some researchers postulated that stimulating olfactory nerves should help stimulate a patient’s memory. (Stimulating the sense of smell is also known to help people regain consciousness after brain injuries.)
Chabad Chassidus explains that Amalek represents a person who “knows his Master yet intends to rebel against him.” The commandment to remember Amalek calls on us to rid ourselves of any inclination toward this kind of behavior.
Mr. Weinstein responded, “I know, but whatever G-d tells me to do, I do the exact opposite.”
Several things just don’t add up. If the information they were providing directly to the Feds wasn’t damning, why couldn’t it have been provided to the state authorities as well?
“Pakad” primarily means remembering something or someone in order to deal with it, and the most basic way of dealing with something is to determine whether it’s actually present or not – hence, it means to count.
That Abbas is desperate is an understatement. The Trump administration cut off all aid and backed a Mideast peace plan that almost completely favored Israel’s wish list.
Even after the El Al Shabbat law was passed, Lod Airport (later Ben-Gurion Airport) continued operations, and charedim and religious groups were concerned that Jewish workers were being forced to work at the airport on Shabbat.
Mr. Graham seemed to be suggesting that the vice president might be punished because she had expressed support for a bail fund for Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota last summer.
Things are definitely heating up in the Middle East, despite it being quite cold. Could anyone have predicted this? Everyone did.
Is there anything wrong with taking an animal from the wild and confining it to restricted living quarters. In other words, are zoos “kosher”?
It felt like the time when the Jewish people left the land of Egypt. There was a terrible plague running wild outside, and inside Hashem was protecting all of His children from the worst of all.
News From Across The Pond.
Well, Nachi, if you don’t know how to put your shoes on, then we won’t be able to go to your friend’s birthday party. We can’t go outside without shoes on.
As a consequence of these negative thought processes, opportunities to achieve one’s goals are flitted away, having never been given a chance to develop.
Orthodoxy in America at the time was in a dismal state, and R. Jacob Joseph's courageous attempts to raise the standards of the kosher meat industry faced fierce opposition.
After my last visit, I was heading back home when I noticed a shiny object on the sidewalk. It looked like a hearing aid. My aunt wore hearing aids, and I knew they could be pretty expensive. I picked it up, wondering how I'd be able to find the owner.
When we dress up for our date, we are conveying our care and interest in the outcome.
Even a superpower monarch like Achashverosh couldn’t spread messages faster than the horsepower… of actual horses. And if something in the message needed clarification, too bad. You had to figure it out as well as you could and hope for the best.
Hashem’s House Is No Different “Everything Except ‘Leave’” (Pesachim 86b)
By Dr. Shmuel Katz and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A weakened Jerusalem significantly weakens Israel and its value to the United States.
Comparing yourself to others is a very dangerous thing. It never helps you feel better and often is based on false premises.
If you honor and esteem the values of your parents, you will merit long life since you will then have created a bridge between the past and the future and they will unite without interruption.
The Hafla’ah writes that since we want our prayers to rise to the heavens, they must be infused with a ruach, a spirit that causes them to ascend to Hashem’s Throne of Glory.
We sat on a bench, and he spoke to me about how Hashem guides everything happening in the world. When we see something unusual, in particular, we should realize hashgacha pratis is at work.
If not for the attention-grabbing Torah shields, I think the star of this sale would have been the most magnificent Esther scroll case for Purim I have ever seen.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Torah means “law.” But it also means “teaching, instruction, guidance,” or more generally, “direction.”
Our sages note that “gemilus chassadim” is an interesting phrase because the root of “gemilus” means to finish.
From our first appointment, which was with a social worker, I realized that we were going to be facing a challenging experience.
Question: Is one allowed to use an electric slow cooker (such as a Crock-Pot) that fits into another pot for the purpose of maintaining hot food on Shabbos? M. Goldblum
By Tzvi Fishman
Before Bibi gets through with Bennett and Sa'ar, they are going to be hanging on to one another like punch-drunk boxers in the center of the ring.
In some cases, a neighbor can object so that the protrusion doesn’t establish a chazakah (permanent rights) should he ever want to build there.
I will now state with equal certitude that the American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans – very possibly, more than that
By Dorit Reiss
Courts generally look for a good faith effort by the employer to provide the employee a chance to work within the limits of the religious belief, rather than for complete acceptance of the employee’s preference.
One of the reasons I wrote this book is because the years 1945-1950 are absolutely critical for the history of Zionism and the Jewish people, and we know nothing about them.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Because verbal abuse is more prevalent and generally overlooked as being problematic, the Torah makes the consequences more severe.
The war there has rightly been called a humanitarian catastrophe with the Houthi committing atrocities typical of the most notorious terrorists groups around the world – of which it certainly is one.
Indeed, the Talmud (Shavuos 26a) exempts a person from punishment if he swore falsely to something that he thought was true.
At a time when the court system continues to accumulate an ever-growing corona-induced backlog of cases – already numbering in the many thousands – getting rid of senior and experienced judges seems to be as wrongheaded as one can get.
A spokesman for Schumer promptly responded, “We respect their request and of course will accommodate it.” No questions. No comments. No qualifications. No equivocations.
The continued spread of the virus is mostly being attributed to the "British Mutation.” This strand of the virus has attacked much younger people and specifically late-term pregnant women.
The governor failed to mount a serious defense, reportedly out of fear that his top officials would have to testify.
After a lengthy trial, the ship was ordered returned to its owner, and it sailed back to Italy. In an act of revenge, the Irgun blew up the British radar station on Mount Carmel.
Should a frum Jew believe the sun goes around Earth if the Rambam says it does?
All the children of Israel make up one great entity of spiritual holiness. Each Jewish soul that lives in this world, no matter what their state of mind or being, makes up the Jewish nation.
Girls use relationships to bully each other. This starts as early as preschool, when a girl realizes the supremacy of “I won’t be your friend anymore.”
I learned to tone down my expectations. All too often, we’ve fallen in with poor buys, bad tenants (or no tenants), unpaid rent and financial losses. Over the years, there have been more complications than I could enumerate.
Why would someone want to marry me? Why would they take their chances with a girl who has all this baggage when there are so many others around who are more eligible?
You are certainly no dummy. Clever is the name of your game. Reaching out for help is always the right thing to do.
Location! Location! ‘On and Off His Forehead’ (Pesachim 77a)
If secular Jewish groups refused to get involved with the Crown Heights Riots because it was so politically incorrect – “chassidim victimized by African-Americans” – how much more so would the Democrats wish to steer clear?
A bookplate on the free-end of a copy I just acquired states that it was donated by the kollel to the Beit Medrash in the Windsheim, Germany, D.P. Camp.
Many family members of those who died from the pandemic speak of having missed out where their departed loved one is concerned. Nehora did not miss out.
October 2, 2026 
