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The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 2: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
A city of great Torah Learning, but also haskalah, strife, and the challenges of modernity
2 years ago
Tekiah Teruah Tekiah: Joy, Weeping, Joy: Symbolism in the Ritual
R' Katz speculates on the עָרוּךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָן and his take on the תְּקִיעוֹת
2 years, 1 month ago
Haftarah Parshas Ki Savo - Isaiah paints the Jewish Utopia
In the Messianic era, antisemitism will cease, the Jews will be on top, and all of mankind will enjoy peace, prosperity, and enlightenment
2 years, 1 month ago
The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 1: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
A city of great Torah Learning, but also haskalah, strife, and the challenges of modernity
2 years, 1 month ago
Parshas Ki Savo: The Terrible Tochecha - Why is Devarim's worse than VaYikra's?
Moses is addressing the victorious soldiers of three recent wars
2 years, 1 month ago
Haftarah Ki Seitzei: The woman who medically could not bear children suddenly has sextuplets!
The Jewish People are עֲקוּרָה, uprooted from their native soil, but they will recover it!
2 years, 1 month ago
Thoughts on the curved shofar vs. the straight shofar
R Katz analyzes the evolution of Rosh Hashanah over the millennia into its current universal form
2 years, 1 month ago
Parshas Ki Seitzei: Amalek in Our Parsha and the Attack on October 7
פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תֵּצֵא: זְכִירַת עֲמָלֵק בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה
2 years, 1 month ago
The Expulsion from Prague (1745) and The Network of Rich European Jews: A Tale of Achdus
Part 2
2 years, 1 month ago
Haftarah Parshat Shoftim: Redemption comes to a battered and bloodied Jewish People
Bittersweet - A Glorious Geulah, but a depressed Jewish People scarred by their sufferings in galus
2 years, 1 month ago