We received the following comments from a reader last week. Our responses appear in CAPITAL LETTERS following each of his points below. ... From: Prero,...
Shalom uvracha. TORAT IMECHA #8 explores the obligations of Torah leaders and some of the obstacles that they face. A pdf version in a format more suitable...
Dear Chevrah, A belated chodesh tov/chodesh sameach to all. Also, a warm welcome to the many new members who joined our group in recent days. Adar is a month...
Following the posting of "Adar Reflections" on February 16, several readers raised questions about the teaching of Harav Tzvi Yehuda Kook zt"l mentioned there...
A yeshiva-world figure with whom I have been close over the years once responded to my reservations about the suitability of daf yomi study for the masses with...
I thought that this list was not about what happens to American Jewry... That's why I was interested... If one has to judge according to what happens in the...
WE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM TOBY KATZ AND HAVE INTERLINIATED OUR REPLY IN UPPER CASE LETTERS FOLLOWING EACH OF HIS POINTS BELOW: In a message dated...
Arutz 7 reports that Former Chief Ashkenazi HaRav Avraham Shapira and former Chief Sephardi Harav Mordechai Eliyahu, shlit"a, have declared a public fast to be...
TORAT IMECHA - No. 9, Ta'anit Esther and Purim, Adar II 5765 Torah from EIM HABANIM SEMEICHA by Rav Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal{*} An occasional publication of...
Please excuse the typographical error in the first paragraph of Section 4 of TORAT IMECHA, No. 9, as it was posted last night. Thanks to those who called it to...
We mentioned in TORAT IMECHA No. 6 that an organization for the promotion of aliyah known as Sa Einacha (Lift Up Your Eyes) has launched an initiative to...
B'H Shalom, I have heard recently that Rav Teichtal the author of Em HaBanim Semecha has written in his sefer that when HaShem opens the door for Jews to...
... We'll try to respond thoroughly in a series of posts, of which this is the first. At the end of the preface to Eim Habanim Semeicha, R. Teichtal ...
Some of you may recall that TORAT IMECHA No. 7 contained a very positive review of Hagaon Rav Yom Tov Haleivi Schwarz's book, Eyes to See, a contemporary work...
In Part I, we presented R. Teichtal's view that our attachment to galut and lack of regard for Yishuv Eretz Yisrael is the cause of many of the trials and...
Do you realize that Part II of your reply posted earlier today has a word-count of 613 - Taryag (the number of mitzvot)? Part I of your reply posted yesterday...
At the risk of ruining the clever and beautiful gematria that was pointed out by a reader in an earlier post today (about which we expect to have more to say...
Before continuing to review sources for R. Teichtal's view that failure to strive for Yishuv Haaretz brings misfortune upon the Jewish people, it is important...
Continuing our review of sources for R. Teichtal's view that failure to strive for Yishuv Haaretz brings misfortune upon the Jewish people, we quote the...
... your ... of ... Taken ... as ... assumes ... I am pleased to say that I did not realize any such thing, although I am very happy to learn it is so in light...
Shalom and Chodesh Tov. Several follow-up points remain to be made in connection with the 5- part Reply to Aaron's Question posted over the last few weeks,...
Dear Chevra, I hope all enjoyed a fine Pesach. Please excuse the hiatus in posts since then. I've been involved in a new writing project that has consumed...
Dear Chevra, As was the case last year when we first posted excerpts in English from HaRav E.M. Bloch's letter on Yom Haatzmaut, we have again received many...
Dear Toby, Thank you for the acknowledgment. Honesty and openness are what we're here for, at least in part. It is a tragic irony that those attributes often...
The online article that Emmanuel Ifra cites in his message below, Harav Menachem Kasher's essay on the aggadic oath "not to go up en masse" (in Hebrew), is...
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