Private Matters

The Meaning of Love

L’chaim – the Torah Perspective on Alcohol Consumption

Early Rabbinic Attitudes towards Immigration to the United States (Sources)

טבילת כלים

Dust and Ashes: The Conflict Between Burial and Cremation

The Mindset of Prayer – Tefilah with Kavanah

Matrilineal Descent: Who Is a Jew

Long Life: In G-d’s Hand or One’s Own?

הצלת נפש בנפש

Evolution of Prayer

Talking Animals (Sources)

Studying the Secular: The Soul of the Matter

The Laws of the Jew and His .22

Study or Sink: Secular Education and the Hunt for a Job

What to Make of Divine Rage

Can Rabbis Give Medical Advice?

Kiruv with Love: Its Origins and its Propriety

Celebrating a Bas Mitzva (Sources)

A Parting Gift of Atonement

The Afterlife of the Righteous Gentile

A Bad Bet or a Light Laugh?: The Difference Between Lotto and Gambling

מצות הלואה

Moshiach’s Mysterious Harp – Music of the Future

Bizarre Burial?

What’s in a Name?

Why the Torah Is Inconsistent

An Uplifting Shabbos (Sources)

על בכיה ודמעות

The Devastation of Midyan: Justice or Genocide?

The Covenants that Bind Us

Dots and Squiggles

צלם אלקים

The Torah’s CEOs (sources)

הנחת פרחים מעל ארון או קבר המת

The Crucible of Life: On Challenges and Tests