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Haftarah Ki Seitzei: Will We Be Ashamed of Our Many Past Sins in the Messianic Era?
Will G-d forget? Forgive?
3 years, 1 month ago
Is the יְפַת תֹּאַר just פָּשׁוּט פְּשַׁט, or is it a wider metaphor too?
When a person is חוֹשֵׁק, he doesn't consider the future consequences
3 years, 1 month ago
A Conversation w/ Gabe Aaronson, Chief Numbers-Cruncher for the OU
Has day-school enrollment in NYC plateaued? R' Katz and Gabe Aaronson analyze the latest statistics.
3 years, 1 month ago
The מַטֵּה אֶפְרַיִם, the richest Gadol in many centuries. How did he excel in business and Torah?
Wealthy enough not to be a rov or rosh yeshiva, but up there with the גְּדוֹלֵי הַדּוֹר
3 years, 1 month ago
Why is there a זֵכֶר for the third round of 40 days, but not for the second?
Which round was תְּשׁוּבָה מִיִּרְאָה , and which was תְּשׁוּבָה מֵאַהֲבָה?
3 years, 1 month ago
Abraham Drabkin (1844-1927) a Reform rabbi in Czarist Russia?
From Volozhin to the JTS of Breslau to the Great Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Reform Russian style
3 years, 1 month ago
Isaiah says only הקב"ה can provide genuine comfort for all the sufferings of the Jews down the Ages
Genuine אֱמוּנָה requires seeing נִקְמַת מִדָּה כְּנֶגֶד מִדָּה
3 years, 1 month ago
Analyzing the distinction between שופטים and kings (דְּרָשׁוֹת הָרַ"ן)
R,Katz distinguishes between courts who administered the justice of the original תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה and their later successors
3 years, 1 month ago
The great גרש"ד Kahana, spirited out of the Warsaw Ghetto to become Rav of Old City of Jerusalem
The mammoth Aguna crisis in the aftermath of the Holocaust
3 years, 1 month ago
Parshas Re'eh and Jewish History: The Existential Tension in Jewish History Between the Centralizers and the Decentralizers
Moses' Stark Admonition That Everything is Either a Blessing or a Curse; Nothing is Neutral
3 years, 2 months ago