A View of the Tsunami From Within the Book of Yonah
Lo Alenu, not to us, words we say and mean whenever we empathize with others’ troubles, expressing our recognition that we are no better than they, that but for the grace of God—literally, not as an...
View ArticleTune in for: “On Becoming A Baal Teshuva” with Allison Josephs!
Register now for this amazing opportunity to learn with Ms. Allison Josephs of JewintheCity.com! Ms. Allison Josephs will be giving a three-part mini-series “On Becoming A Baal Teshuva” on...
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Podcast: Prepare for Tisha B’Av
Prepare for Tisha B’Av with this shiur about Eicha by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, Rosh Yeshiva of WebYeshiva.org, given last week Maayan – Boston’s Torah Study Initiative for Women (www.maayan.org). Click...
View ArticleElul-Related Thoughts: Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l
Some of R. Moshe Feinstein’s Elul-Related Thoughts For the month of Elul, I thought it would be interesting to review some responsa that relate to the month, or at least in which that month figures...
View ArticleElul-Related Thoughts: Rav Herzog on Conversion
Are We Doing Converts a Favor? This past Shabbat, the 25th of Elul, was the 70th anniversary of a teshuvah R. Herzog wrote (Even haEzer 1;20) that deals directly with a question of conversion, but has...
View ArticleTeshuva MeAhava: Who Loves Whom?
Rabbi Chaim Brovender gave a special class during the Asseret Yemei Teshuva- Ten Days of Repentance. Please enjoy Rabbi Brovender’s class, Teshuva MeAhava: Who Loves Whom? Click here for the source...
View ArticleSong of Teshuvah
Rabbi Jeffrey Saks discusses Rav Moshe Weinberger’s new edition, translation and elucidation of Rav Kook’s “Orot HaTeshuvah” entitled “Song of Teshuvah” with the book’s translator and adaptor Yaacov...
View Article14th of Kislev: R. Kook on the Obligation to Repent
Varying Assumptions About Rambam’s View of Teshuvah One of the first sefarim I read on my own, and which made a deep impression on me, was the translation of Al heTeshuvah, Pinchas Peli z”l’s...
View ArticleInights in Pirkei Avot: The Implications of Causing Others to Sin
One who causes the community to be meritorious, no sin will come by his hand. One who causes the community to sin, is not given the opportunity to repent. Moshe was meritorious and caused the community...
View ArticleSeven Weeks Is Shorter Than You Think: The Third Sha’ar of Sha’arei Teshuvah
Once Tisha B’Av is past, we enter a period known as the shiv’a de-nechemta, the seven weeks of comfort, because we read seven haftarot stressing Hashem’s promise to one day comfort us and Yerushalayim....
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Mrs. Sally Mayer: Tokhacha (rebuke) in the Modern World
In a shiur given at this week’s WebYeshiva.org Halacha Mastery Program’s Yarchei Kalla, Mrs. Sally Mayer taught a shiur on dealing with the mitzvah of ‘tokhacha’ or rebuking a fellow Jew in today’s...
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