Etching the Torah in our hearts and minds takes an enormous investment of effort and time. We may fear that the long hours we spend on it displaces the time we need to meet our surrounding responsibil ...

About fifty talmidim from Machon Lemaan Yilmedu were tested last week by the posek, Rabbi Gavriel Zinner, author of Nitei ...

(Thoughts shared at Seudat Shlishit at the Maimonides Kehillah, Brookline, MA to mark the recent Yahrzeits of my father-in-law, Abraham Leidner, z”l and my father, Seymour Hefter, z”l) ...

Moshe Silver is a writer and both a student and teacher of Torah, living in Jerusalem. In addition to Semicha, Rabbi Silver holds an MBA in finance and an MFA in creative writing.

Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz is the director of the semicha program at Yeshiva University and a congregational rabbi in North Woodmere, NY. While he doesn’t write short stories, he has the equivalent ...

In other words, we are normally not allowed to kill one person to save another; however, because the rodef is engaging in an act of attempted murder, there is a special din of chiyuv missah on the rod ...