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Tefillin and the Har Nof Massacre

"If every Jew takes something, even some small point where he can strengthen himself because of this tragic story," says Mrs. Rothman, widow of the late R' Chaim Yechiel HY"D, "then this be the best consolation for us as well as the greatest kindness one can provide for my husband's soul."

Council of Torah Sages: "Open Orthodoxy" is Not a Form of Torah Judaism

Recent years have seen an effort by various institutions, under the rubric of "Open Orthodoxy," to claim, as per that chosen name, that their theology and attitude toward Jewish religious law are within the bounds of Orthodox Judaism.


HaRav Hillel Meshel Gelbstein zt"l Author of Mishkenos Le'avir Yaakov


In honor of his yahrtzeit 24 Cheshvan 5668/1908

In his father's house in Bialystok sat the young boy Meshel, absorbed in his Torah learning day and night.

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Opinion and Comment

HaRav Shach's Approach to the Essence of a Torah Disseminator

by HaRav Shmuel HaKohen Deutsch

The Study Approaches

The primary goal of study is to clarify a sugya in order to understand it at a basic level. The purpose of in- depth study of a subject is to illuminate it - and not to innovate ideas and new halachic safeguards or other such corollaries. If, in the course of study, one encounters difficulties, one can later dwell upon them in intensive study. But there is no call for writing one's own shtikel Torah on what one has covered.


Opinion and Comment

The Basket

FICTION

by A. Harel

Part I A ticking on the window pane. Can she be hearing right? Yes! Again-a light fluttering, almost a ticking.


Opinion and Comment

The Need to Conceal the Rationale of Mitzvos

by HaRav E. E. Dessler

[This shmuess was delivered at the Mashgiach's monthly shiur on Shabbos parshas Chukas 5764 and was written up by a member of the audience.]

Part II In the first part, HaRav Dessler asked several questions about the topic of the rationale of mitzvos, based on the famous discussion in Chazal of the Poroh Adumoh.




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