A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: When you borrow a Sefer Torah and it gets damaged, are you liable like any other borrower, or does the mitzvah of lending Torah change ...
Just a few short weeks ago, on Shabbat, we read about Moshe: "He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.” (Parshat Shmot, Exodus, 3:2:) Moshe ponders how this is ...
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David is new to shul and offered hagba (the raising of the Torah). It’s painful to watch. He can barely lift the Sefer Torah, almost drops it, and sits down very quickly. Feeling very embarrassed ...
Can A Robot Write A Sefer Torah? An Interview with Rabbi Menachem Perl, Head of the Tzomet Institute
Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, ...
During the summer of 2014 Nahal Infantry Brigade soldiers fought bravely in Gaza alongside other combat units, with many Nahal soldiers among those making the ultimate sacrifice for their country. The ...
Rabbi Lenny Sarko was told making a braille Sefer Torah while adhering to kosher laws was impossible. Challenge accepted. Four years later, Sarko produced the first braille Torah. Sarko is the rabbi ...
“When Moshe would go out to the Tent, the entire people would stand up and remain standing … until he arrived at the Tent” (Shemos 33:8). The Medrash Tanchuma writes that we learn from here that one ...
The Long Island firefighter who saved a sacred Sefer Torah from a burning Chabad on Wednesday said he was no “super hero” and was just doing what he was trained to do. Firefighter Michael Farca, 54, ...
The fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. and had reached three alarms in about a half-hour The congregation building dates to the early 1920s. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places ...
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