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We are working on appreciating kedushas Eretz Yisroel in a deep, fundamental way, to somehow create a tikun of the sin of the lack [...]

Shabbos Nachamu The name conjures up, at least to the English-speakers that I know, a vast sigh of relief that the mourning period over [...]

A Tisha B'Av Primer To Avoiding Machlokes We left last week's article wondering about the reaction of the people at the vasikin minyan in [...]

We saw in part one of this series that there is a prohibition — according to some an actual Torah prohibition — to be [...]

Last week we saw what makes something a machlokes as opposed to a simple argument. We explained that the point of issur is reached [...]

YOU! Yes, you, the one reading this article: Are you Ashkenazi or Sephardi? Chassid or Misnaged? Dati Leumi or Chareidi? Anglo or Israeli? Belz [...]

a href="http://btya.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/logo-chadash-e1275560988767.jpg">This week's Torah reading has one of the most disturbing, and tragic, events which occurred in the Midbar, on par with the episode [...]

Rav Yonoson Eibeshitz asks the following question: In the story of Purim, there is an entire mini-story within the story, involving Mordechai; Bigsan and [...]

In parshas Terumah, we are introduced for the first time to the idea of a bayis for Hashem - an actual "dwelling place" (mishkan) [...]

Parshas Mishpatim is a compendium of laws and rules, mostly consisting of mitzvos that are bein odom lachaveiro. We know that the mitzvos of the Torah [...]