Rabbi Yitzchak Weiss was the Rabbi and Av Beit Din in Vrbové, western Slovakia. He was a student of Rabbi David Neumann Lackenbach, the Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Pressburg (modern day Bratislava) and a student of the Hatam Sofer.…
by Rabbi Zvi Grumet
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Dr. Yael Ziegler
Posted on September 11, 2020
To follow along with the shiur’s source sheet on Sefaria, please click here.…
by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Posted on July 20, 2020
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by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on May 21, 2020
In Parashat Bamidbar, the Torah tells us how to construct a community that has God and Torah at its center. God’s command, “They shall make for Me a Sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst” (Shemot 25:8), is now given true shape as the Children of Israel depart from Mount Sinai and begin to move as a community and settle as a camp.…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on March 19, 2020
What message can we learn from our parsha to give us some guidance during this crisis? Parshat Vayekhel-Pikudei opens with the second story of the Mishkan. After having been commanded by God in the building of the Mishkan in Terumah-TiZaveh, Moshe now, in turn, commands the people to build the Mishkan.…
by Rabbi Dr. Avi Walfish
Posted on October 26, 2016
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by Rabbi Eric Grossman
Posted on October 21, 2016
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by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on August 10, 2016
The most immediate response to the destruction of the Temple was crying, sorrow and lamentations – a response that we try to relive on Tisha b’Av. But it is not possible, certainly on a national level, for the sense of tragedy and loss to dominate and define our religious life. …
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on July 5, 2016
Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakai (RYBZ), leader of the Jewish people during the period immediately following the destruction of the temple, established a number of edicts (takanot) during his tenure. The Talmud places the total number at nine, six of which are explicitly stated in the Mishnah, and three more are attributed to him by the Talmud.…
by Rabbi Avi Weiss
Posted on May 25, 2016
Parshat Terumah talks about the first synagogue of all time – the mishkan. Because the chasm between the finite human being and the infinite God is great, the mishkan was established so that there would be a tangible place where people could feel more intensely, more powerfully, the presence of God.…
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