Judaism

The entire group began laughing at Moshe, and with this Korach launched his revolt.

A father may not transfer the bechor’s right to a double portion to a younger son.

Hashem told Moshe that the miracle of the staffs would remove the complaint that Bnei Yisrael still had.

Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef

It is the certainty with which the plaintiff presses his claim that obliges the defendant to take an oath and that saddles him with a moral obligation to pay.

Crossing The Divide ‘Then The Two Men Shall Stand…’ (Bava Basra 155b)

The bags had floated off in opposite directions and were already filling with water. Yehuda paddled away to pick up his bag.

Often we feel that the days just pass by and we are missing our purpose in life.

A nation lacking a consistent message will not flourish, and will ultimately lose its sense of safety and elevation. Even a beautifully motivated desire must be measured by its affect on the future.

In this week's video, Rabbi Fohrman points to two fascinating stories which force us to ask a theological question: what impact, if any, can we have on God? Is it possible for us to influence God?

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Korach assembles the people against Moshe - but did they actually engage in, or threaten to engage in, disobedience?  The text as we have it records NO active illegality.

The purpose of genuine religious life is to protest against delusion and to teach us to reframe our spiritual spectacles. It is not that religion shows us something new. It shows us what we have seen all our lives but have never noticed.

Their heartache is unimaginable, yet they persevere with their life’s mission with a fervency and faith, seemingly fortified by the tragedy that rocked their world.

MacArthur was more than simply an expert in the writing and delivery of sound bites.

Clothes make the human: "Modesty is the conscience of the body." Honore de Balzac

Despite modern-day wisdom, which instructs us, "not to sweat the small stuff," but it ALL starts with the “small stuff.” if allowed to go unchecked, it is the “small stuff" which can poison relationships

The Priest Forbade Chametz ‘Acquired By Admission’ (Bava Basra 149a)

A typical example of a chok is the prohibition against wearing sha’atnez, clothes made of wool and linen. A typical example of a mishpat is the prohibition against murder.

They saw extremely large fruit and interpreted that to mean that just as the fruit are extreme and strange so to are the inhabitants. This was a misconception and a misinterpretation of the facts.

Mr. Stein notified all the participants and called Mr. Turk. Our flight was delayed, he said. We will have to reschedule the bus for 5 p.m.

Living In Jerusalem isn’t so easy. People with different religions and different views want this city to belong only to them.

In order for an admission to be acceptable in court, it must be made in front of two witnesses appointed to hear it.

After a couple of weeks, it became very clear to me that I was not earning anywhere near enough money to pay for Yeshivah.

Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef

Are pessimists just rationalists, and is hope just naivete?

I can empathize with the Children of Israel wanting to send spies to see the land they were to conquer. Once they could see with x-ray vision, "The entire people saw the thunder...the sound of the shofar" but now, no longer

Yehoshua and Calev's mistake was what they could have done earlier: They must have known their colleagues’ negative inclination. The Torah’s silence on whether they tried to change the mind of the other spies speaks to their own silence as well.

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From a human perspective, circumcision happens just once; but from the perspective of mission, the message conveyed by this act – the Jewish nation’s unwavering commitment to a higher mission – resounds forever