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    We live in a generation in which many seek chumrot, religious stringency…

  One would not expect the laws of divorce to be affected by one's location. Thus it…

After detailing the laws of the suspected adulteress the Mishna moves to masechet Gittin. While the…

  Part of the purpose of the harsh treatment of the Sotah is convincing the suspected…

Of all our holidays, only that of Chanukah begins in the second half of the month. Rosh Hashanah,…

  In our last post we discussed the Talmudic tendency to group together sayings of…

  Originally meant as an oral “text” the Talmud features a number of mnemonic…

Why was it that Abraham and Yitzchak had only one child who would remain within the Jewish people…

  It is an amazing aspect of the human condition that two people can see the same thing yet…

  One of most bitter and divisive (Jewish) fights of the 19th century was that…

In our last post we discussed how a rasha arum, a cunning evildoer, is amongst the…

  Most Canadians in turning 71 get a monetary windfall as they begin to cash in the savings…

  “He [Rabbi Yehoshua] used to say: a pious fool, a cunning evildoer, an ascetic…

In our last post we discussed the view of Rabbi Eliezer that one who teaches his daughter Torah is…

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is this notion that lay at the heart of one of the most…

For most people carpool is a scheduling nuisance, one of those necessary but unwanted jobs of…

One could hardly find fault with the claim that sibling rivalry is the major theme of Sefer…