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OPINION & COMMENT Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the completion of Shas, perhaps the central work of Torah and the one that gets the greatest attention among those who study Torah. These are active, busy people, and many of them are quite familiar with many of the other works that the world has to offer, they have access to and can afford the greatest products of the West — yet they spent thousands of hours studying the Talmud, and happily came together to celebrate the completion of one cycle of study and the beginning of another one. The Shechinah Can Only Reside Through Justice
The Covenant of the Oral Torah In the first part, HaRav Ehrentreu noted that we have just finished a collective study of the major work of our Oral Torah. What makes the Oral Torah unique?
Money Talks: Insights into Parshas Shekolim and the
Machatzis Hashekel The Torah relates that when Eliezer realized that Rivka was destined to be Yitzchok's wife he gave her two gifts; a ring that weighed a beka, and two gold bracelets that weighed ten selo'im (Bereishis 24:22). The following is a letter I received from a prominent talmid chochom following a droshoh I gave at Beis Knesses Naos Yosef: All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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