OPINION & COMMENT

A Moral Analysis of the US Economy

In September, the US imported $66 billion more than it exported. If things continue the way they have been going in the first nine months of the year — and there is every expectation that they will — then the US will import a total of $706 billion more than it exports.

The Need to Conceal the Rationale of Mitzvos
by HaRav E. E. Dessler

HaRav Shach's Approach to the Essence of a Torah Disseminator
by HaRav Shmuel HaKohen Deutsch

The primary goal of study is to clarify a sugya in order to understand it at a basic level. The purpose of in- depth study of a subject is to illuminate it — and not to innovate ideas and new halachic safeguards or other such corollaries. If, in the course of study, one encounters difficulties, one can later dwell upon them in intensive study. But there is no call for writing one's own shtikel Torah on what one has covered.

One of a Kindness: Parshas Chayei Soroh
by Yaacov Polskin

Politica: Will Peretz Learn from Mitzna's Mistakes?
By E. Rauchberger