To those of you who may be thinking that I am writing things that any believing Jew knows already, and that I am wasting time, energy, ink, and paper (ink? what’s ink??) on explaining matters which are already known and acknowledged, I ask you to describe the last time that you thought about Hashem (not [...]
Bo Bulletin in PDF format It is preferable to daven shacharis without a minyan after sunrise than with a minyan before sunrise. The person should make every attempt to get to a Shul at some point to hear kaddish,kedushah,keri’as haTorah and borchu. A Shul should not be used for hespedim unless the aveil is a [...]
The title of the column is actually based on a Ramban at the end of Parshas Bo. This Ramban is so critically important, nay, vital, to our entire belief system, that it deserves to be read much, much more than anything I would write. And so we will learn the Ramban together, and then I [...]
Vaeira Bulletin in PDF format If one is in the middle of shemoneh esrei and hears a person saying kaddish, he should stop and listen to the amein yehei shmei rabba…..until yisbarach; quite possibly shome’ah k’oneh applies. Moshe Rabbeinu felt he needed to leave the tamei city in order to daven. He apparently felt that the shechinah was indeed [...]
