Like everything else this year, we shall, somewhat unusually, fast a bit this Shabbos. The poskim (Tur and Shulchan Aruch 249; Nitei Gavriel, Teshuvah...
I am in trouble.
Ten years ago, upon Rav Yitzchok Hutner’s thirtieth yahrtzeit, I published in my tribute that Chazal (Avodah Zarah 5b; Rashi, Devorim...
The best mesholim (parables) begin as true stories and are eventually transposed into mesholim to live by. Rav Chizkiyohu Mishkovsky told the tragically recurring...