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We left our readers last week in mid-air, so to speak, trying to decide which airline to use, based on its safety standards. Should [...]

Speaking of kashrus (What? You didn't read last week's piece?), I am quite often literally bombarded with shailos about hechsherim. What, ultimately, is the difference [...]

As we experience once again the days of chometz u’matzah, we look back to Pesach and suddenly realize that we just experienced a seven-day [...]

Did you ever stop to think how it is that a food (i.e, chometz) that we partake of and enjoy all year round suddenly becomes [...]

And so we sit by the Seder and tell the story of how Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. That’s terrific, wonderful, really nice. [...]

There seems to be a consistent, curious phenomenon in the pesukim about the Mishkan. And that is a persistent seeming repetition—again, and again, and [...]

Post-Purim is not too late to talk about Purim! First of all, the posuk says, “And the month which was transformed for them from [...]

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 [...]