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  • Sukkos and the Battle for "The" Official-Memory of the 40 years in the desert

    Sukkos and the Battle for "The" Official-Memory of the 40 years in the desert
    2026/09/23

    The years in the Desert were magical, wondrous, and wonderful (עַנָּנֵי הַכָּבוֹד)

    OR

    The year in the desert were physically torturous and ended in death (because of the two big sins) (סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ)
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    21 分
  • Intellectual Bankruptcy and the Current (non-frum) Jewish Anti-Zionism

    Intellectual Bankruptcy and the Current (non-frum) Jewish Anti-Zionism
    2026/09/22

    Will Dissolving Israel and returning to Galus save the Jewish People? Are you nuts?
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    32 分
  • The unusual מַחְלֹקֶת רִאשׁוֹנִים re: The אַרְבָּעָה חִלּוּקֵי כַּפָּרָה

    The unusual מַחְלֹקֶת רִאשׁוֹנִים re: The אַרְבָּעָה חִלּוּקֵי כַּפָּרָה
    2026/09/20

    The סֵפֶר הָאֶשְׁכּוֹל says that is not how Heaven operates
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    24 分
  • Shabbos Shuvah, Parshas Haazinu: Moshe goes out on a rhetorical high

    Shabbos Shuvah, Parshas Haazinu: Moshe goes out on a rhetorical high
    2026/09/17

    When misfortune strikes, will you be intelligent enough to be thoughtfully and constructively self-critical? Or will you be like everyone else in the Middle East?
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    29 分
  • A Possible History of Yom Kippur

    A Possible History of Yom Kippur
    2026/09/16

    Why does the Torah (i.e., Hashem) permit everything on Yom Kippur except eating and drinking?
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    30 分
  • Rabbi Yekusiel Aryeh Kamelhar (1871-1937), life in the Jewish Galicia in the fin de siècle

    Rabbi Yekusiel Aryeh Kamelhar (1871-1937), life in the Jewish Galicia in the fin de siècle
    2026/09/16

    At different times, a Rav, Rosh Yeshiva, Historian, journalist. Seeking a footing when you are an original thinker but not a member of the "in club" in Hasidic society
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    57 分
  • Major Alfred Mordecai US Army (1804-1887): Can one stay frum at West Point?

    Major Alfred Mordecai US Army (1804-1887): Can one stay frum at West Point?
    2026/09/14

    Robert E Lee chose the Confederacy. George Thomas chose the Union. Which side did Major Mordecai choose?
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    50 分
  • Rosh Hashanah and the Dangers of AI: An interpretation of the theme of Malchiyos

    Rosh Hashanah and the Dangers of AI: An interpretation of the theme of Malchiyos
    2026/09/10

    Also: The historical origins of וְכֵן תֵּן פַּחְדְּךָ
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    29 分