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There are a lot of issues that need addressing, but moderation won't allow some of them to be addressed in the proper forum. 1) I see...

Rabbi Zev Farber has caused quite the online tumult.  It remains to be seen whether this will remain a tempest in an online teapot, or sp...

Dvar Torah: Lv 1:2 - one may bring offerings from the cattle, from the herds, and from the flocks. Why three froms?  Rashi (from B. Tem. ...

A Reconstructionist minyan in Germantown is considering adding Bilhah and Zilpah to the text of the Amidah.  Of course, this comes after ad...

Addressed to someone who seems to think that the Rishonim are “a movement”: > there must have been something brewing prior to that t...

In reading the bibliography of Zvi Mark's recent "Mysticism and Madness," on R' Nachman of Bratslav, I had to wonder - why...

Metatron, Sandalphon, Akatriel - these are the names of high-level angels.  Metatron is the Prince of the Countenance, God's right-hand ...