Update

Cross-Currents has agreed to edit the post that gratuitously linked me to Open Orthodox ideology and practices. Many thanks to the authors of Cross-Currents for making what I believe to be the right decision in this matter.

When “More” Is Less

Recently, a blog post published by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky concluded that we should no longer recite the blessing שלא עשני אשה  and that, in fact, to do so constitutes a חילול השם. The author adduces several questionable sources to support his proposal and which can...

Five Tragedies, One Lesson

The Rambam, following the Talmud, describes five tragedies that occurred on the Seventeenth of Tammuz: “Five events occurred on the Seventeenth of Tammuz: The tablets containing the “Ten Commandments” were shattered; the daily sacrifice in the First...

New Blog – Sephardic Bet Midrash

Please take a moment to visit my new blog, “Sephardic Bet Midrash”:http://sephardicbetmidrash.blogspot.comI will be presenting summaries of the in-depth classes in Halakha that we conduct here at Magen David Sephardic Congregation every Thursday night....

I Can Say Goodbye

I Can Say Goodbye I can say goodbye to you today Like a flower says goodbye To the soil that fills its veins with life, And wrapped gingerly in a blanket of tears is laid On chilly graveyard’s impenetrable ground Or is left by fluttering hearts to wait and wilt On...
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