Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

 I came across the following, and it reminded me of the Gemara in Avoda Zara 18b. From an article on BBC, " Did ships really battle in ...

From a drasha at a granddaughter's Sheva Brachos - Shana and Avi Chin.  Good to have in your pocket, and it can be cut down to a quarter...

This post was elicited by an experience I had while saying my Halacha Shiur. We are learning Siman 70. Two members of the shiur commented, a...

 BM 86b: אמר רב יהודה אמר רב: כל מה שעשה אברהם למלאכי השרת בעצמו – עשה הקדוש ברוך הוא לבניו בעצמו. וכל מה שעשה אברהם על ידי שליח – עשה הקדוש...

 Based on Mishnas R Aharon in Shmini. ויקרא ט ו וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה זֶה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה תַּעֲשׂוּ וְיֵרָא אֲלֵיכֶם כְּבוֹד יְהו...

with R Moshe Wolfson and Avraham Bukspan.  It is well known, from, for example, Reb Tzadok, that the way a word is used in its first appeara...

(Sharing a humorous experience from last week. My father in law, Harav Reuven Feinstein, spent several days at our house and joined us for a...