By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein This week’s essay presents a meticulous examination of the Hebrew word cheilev (often translated simply as “fat” in English) and its ostensible synonyms. The word cheilev appears approximately 90 times throughout the Bible, with a plurality of those appearances clustered around the opening chapters of the Book of Leviticus in […]
By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein Last week, Jews the world over celebrated Purim Katan, a minor holiday observed in the month Adar I of a leap year, exactly one month before the regular Purim is observed in Adar II. To start getting into the Purim spirit, this essay explores the names of two heroes from […]
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The famed Alter of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt’l, was a revolutionary educator and builder of Torah. He reoriented the focus of avodas Hashem on gadlus ha-adam, the inherent greatness of the human being. The Alter’s son-in-law and successor, Rav Yitzchak Isaac Sher, zt’l, transmitted the derech of Slabodka to the post-War generation of […]