Rav Kook in Orot HaTeshuva says that the initial sparks of Teshuva, repentance, are undetectable, existing far beneath the ...

In IDF military service, soldiers fulfill two commandments, each equivalent to all the commandments: the obligatory war of ...

The shofar is the sound of a civilized world disturbed, but its promise is more: It is the sublime sound of mercy on Yom ...

Only through the combination of two attributes can we fulfill completely the words of the Song that promise: “because it will ...

Hundreds of Rabbanim will receive Semicha at the Lemaan Yilmedu Semicha celebration at Oholei Torah Hall in Crown Heights.

(See Kiddushin 39b) Elsewhere, in the Mishnah, it serves as the background for a highly unusual teaching which outlaws the use of certain phrases in the recitation of the Amidah. (When the prayer ...

The Talmud (Kiddushin 31a) relates that a non-Jew named Dama ben Netina refused to provide gems needed for the Temple, ...

Yismach Moshe explains that Avraham was concerned about his spiritual heir. If he had no son, the man who would carry on his teachings and his philosophy was Eliezer, his servant. While Eliezer was a ...

There is no issue of ribbis in locking in the rental price through prepayment, certainly here where the price uncrease was not known when paying (see Y.D. 176:6; Taz and Nekudos Hakesef 176:7; Bris Ye ...