Make a Best Effort, and With G-d’s Help…
At my son's eighth grade Seudas Preida (lit. "departure meal," or graduation dinner), each graduate was asked to say a brief thought. My wife gets the credit for finding a very apt thought on this week's reading. The Torah tells us that the spies went into the Land of...
Enhancing Shabbos With Shabbos Tweets
As many already know, the Baltimore JCC has decided to open its Owings Mills branch on Saturday afternoon, reversing a decision to keep it closed on Shabbos 12 years ago. Our own Rabbi Mordechai Dixler suggested that we think about what we can do to promote thinking...
Shabbos Rally and Feedback from our Readers
This May 29-30 will be Shavuot, the Holiday that celebrates the acceptance of the Torah. Our Shavuos section features many articles about this important, yet somewhat neglected holiday -- please have a look! Speaking of which, my apologies for "getting ahead of...
Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld
This week we are marking the fifth Yahrtzeit of my father-in-law, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld. He was a leading researcher in the field of computer vision, and was also a scholar of Torah with keen insight. He graced Torah.org with two classes in Jewish Law, one each...
The Message of the Tablets
This Shabbos, Jewish congregations around the world read Parshas Yisro, which describes our receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. G-d made Ten Dibros, or Declarations (commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments, but by all accounts there are more than ten Mitzvos...
Rabbi Noach Weinberg, of Blessed Memory
This week, we share in the mourning for Rabbi Noach Weinberg, founder and leader of Aish HaTorah until his passing on Thursday. As I detail in a post on Cross-Currents, I attended only one of his classes (until I, much later, was involved in outreach myself) -- but...
