The Talmud’s explanation here of the mandate to stay inside is not the only rabbinic explanation; a number of other ...

A video of the Talmudist and philosopher Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, speaking about the anxiety that Jews feel about the State of Israel, has recently been uploaded to YouTube. The sermon, which he gives ...

This, it seems, was the extent of what God threatened in Parshat Shemot (4:23). The Rav answered: “As a child in Russia who ...

Rabbi Norman Lamm with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in the YU beit midrash, circa 1980s. Rabbi Lamm’s journey as a scholar was shaped by two of his early teachers. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi ...

The Jewish people lost one of its great lights. Yet, I wonder to what extent the general public, even the general religious public, is aware of that. As son-in-law of the famous Rabbi Yosef Dov ...