Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

For two weeks, we have been saying vidui. On Yom Kippur, we said the long Al Chet eight times. But now, in Neila, as the day ends, we do not...

Yizkor on Yom Kippur is fundamentally different than Yizkor on the Shalosh Regalim.  Besides the historical fact that YYK was practiced duri...

 If you'll look past the apparent fatuousness of the question, let me explain. Even the Rambam in the Yad (albeit in Teshuva and not in ...

 Reb Chaim Brown's son, Eliezer, has a blog, and he posted the following from R Mordechai Malka, the Rav of Elad in Israel. He found it ...

The term "Scapegoat" expresses an error on the part of non-Jewish readers of the Torah. They believed that the Azazel goat was all...

Part of this was first posted in 2010. This adds something very good that I heard from my brother R Akiva shlitah this morning at his Zoom S...

Around a year ago, my wife and I began learning Tanach together. We have gone through Yehoshua, Shoftim, and Melachim, all with Rashi. My w...