The Jewish Worker

I am learning Bava Basra in the mornings and I just learned daf 25b. After learning this sugya I cannot understand how anyone can say that C...

The daf yomi just learned a sugya that discussed what the Torah calls a בגד in various areas of halacha, tumas negaim, tumas sheratzim, and ...

In this week's בקהילה newspaper they published a letter attacking something that was printed last week. Last week they wrote an article ...

The following expresses much better then I could many of the issues that I have with contemporary orthodox society, Ready To Be Orthodox, Bu...

In last week's parsha, Behar, the Torah writes the din of שמיטת כספים. The gemara in Gittin 36a states: הלל התקין פרוסבול וכו': תנן...

Yesterdays and todays daf (Shabos 21-22) contain just about all of the gemara relating to Chanuka. It is really weird to be learning this in...

In our generation it seems that Torah leadership is now inherited. Discounting the Hassidic world which has always done this, it seems now t...

Marvin Schick writes a very good article Kollel Only Schools decrying this new phenomenon. He is absolutely right that this is a terrible t...

Tomorrow is the last day of Behab which is also Pesach Sheni, which creates a contradiction. On Pesach Sheni the minhag is not to say Tachan...

Yesterdays daf (Shabbos 19a) has the din that you are not allowed to go on a boat trip 3 days before Shabbos (if the trip will last over Sha...

פרקי אבות is normally translated as Ethics of the Fathers, is this correct? In fact, it is a machlokes. Rashi on the last mishna in פרקי אבו...

The Gemara in Avoda Zara (13a) states that a cohen is only allowed to leave Israel (because of the gezera of טומאת ארץ העמים) to learn torah...

In yesterday's daf (Shabbos 15) the gemara discusses the gezera of טומאת ארץ העמים. Chazal made a gezera that חוץ לארץ has a din like a ...

Todays daf (Shabbos 14a) has a whole slew of gezeras relating to טומאה and טהרה. Among them is a gezera that anyone who takes a shower becom...

What is בה"ב? It stands for Monday, Thursday, Monday. The בעלי התוספות instituted 3 fast days after Pesach and Succos to atone for any ...

Whenever a person anticipates an event they count down to it, 49 days left, 48 days left, etc. Why by sefiras haomer when we are counting to...

We hear these words every week on shabbos in the מי שבירך לחולים, what does it mean? In today's daf (Shabbos 12a) the gemara says that s...

The GH in his blog has devoted a lot of time to machshava/hashkafa issues and wonders why there is no new machshava coming out of the frum ...

Today's daf (Shabbas 10) has the din that a person needs to be dressed properly for davening. The gemara states that a person cannot dav...

Given that tomorrow is Yom Haatzmaut I decided to write about this topic. Living in Israel I meet a lot of people (both young and old) who a...