Religion
If you were going to check your analytical skills at the door, don’t come into Nechama’s beit midrash.
I found her in the cafeteria, identifying her by her trademark beret. Ever practical, she told me to take a…
There’s a responsibility for every generation to struggle with the text and learn its truths. And all of the Rishonim…
Academics will ask, “What does this story say?” The religious person will ask, in addition, “What is the story saying…
To us as Torah Jews, the Torah is the way Chazal, the Rishonim and the Acharonim understood it.
If studied in the spirit of the Sages, Tanach can help us answer questions that arise—questions of faith, morality, values,…
Neglect of Tanach study among the Ashkenazim dates back to the Middle Ages.
Anyone who engages in the valuable pursuit of discovering novel interpretations of Scripture must be wary of going too far.
I love teaching people before they get into trouble with money. It’s so much easier to help someone when they’re…
Children need to learn that money is not a goal unto itself, but a valuable tool to help us fulfill…
What is perhaps even more remarkable is that a 19-year-old Polish immigrant attained such a high level of fluency in…
