The Jewish Worker

There are a number of problems with the contemporary approach to learning. 1. In Yeshivas hardly any ground is covered. This is not just my ...

The story of the מרגלים is a troubling story. You have the leaders of the Jewish people, tzadikim, suddenly do a terrible sin, why? One appr...

The first mitzva given to the Jewish people is החדש הזה לכם the mitzva of קידוש החדש. This meant that Rosh Chodesh was determined by the tes...

This is my weekday schedule: 5:30 - 6:30 - learn in shul with a chavrusa before davening 6:30 - 7:15 - shacharis 7:15 - 8:15 - breakfa...

Adderabbi has an excellent post ( Mistaken Minhag - Not Answering 'Amen' to the Second Bracha of Shema: The Unabridged Version...

Yesterday's daf (Shabbos 43) has the din of מבטל כלי מהיכנו, which means that you take a כלי and put some מוקצה into it rendering the כל...

Daf Yomi recently learned the gemara in Shabbos(40b) which states a principle that כלי שני אינו מבשל. The question is why not? There are 2 p...

The gemara in Shabbos comments that Hashem held the mountain over the Jewish people's head and forced them to accept the Torah. The obvi...

My previous post was not written well and therefore misinterpreted. I will restate the point I was trying to make in different terms. There ...

This sounds very strange but when you think about it you realize that it is not so far-fetched. The NY Times has an interesting article Refo...

Daf Yomi just started פרק כירה which discusses these issues. The first mishna there has a gezera that you are not allowed to put food even o...

The Daf Yomi shiur that I go to is given by a big Talmid Chacham who is UO (he has been learning in Kollel for 12+ years). It was interestin...

New Tech Protects Ancient Torahs is an interesting article which describes 2 methods available to identify Torahs and prevent thefts.

Yesterday's and today's daf (Shabbos 34-35) discuss this issue. Most of what I write here is based on R' Willig's piece in h...

As a followup to R' Breitowitz's article about working vs kollel I would like to bring up a related issue. For those of us who work ...

Hirhurim linked to 2 articles by R. Yitzchak Breitowitz ( Torah and Professionalism and Choosing a Profession: Torah Considerations ) whi...

This is the best I could do with my digital camera (my scanner doesn't work). Why R' Shachter, R' Moshe Shapiro, R' Aharon L...

With the onset of summer I started thinking about summers past that I spent in the Morasha Kollel (both high school and college). I believe ...

I saw an ad in this week's English Hamodia which really surprised me. The ad is for the Taryag Mitzvos Program, where people learn about...

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...