Rabbi Azriel Schreiber
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Wearing Torah Crown
A friend has offered to loan me a silver Torah crown to wear as part of a “kingly” costume. I am uneasy about doing so for fear of being disrespectful and/or worse. On the other hand, it is my understanding…
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Self-Confidence
How does self-confidence have a place in Jewish thought if all is in the hands of Heaven? Answer: The Torah perspective on self-confidence is somewhat complex. As you said, everything is in the hands of Heaven. As such, there is…
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Expressing Faith
What are some things you do to practice faith? Answer: Faith in God’s Torah can be best expressed or practiced by observing the commandments given to us. Each of us, to the best of our individual abilities, can try to…
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Women’s Obligation to Learn Torah
I noticed in Chapter 6 of Pirkei Avot that a lot of the statements of the Sages have to do with Torah study. In what way should women (who do not have a requirement to study Torah) internalize these lessons…
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Census Discrepancies
In Exodus 30:11-16 there is a census taken, and the number of men over the age of 20 were counted at 603,550 (as specified ibid 38:26). Now, in Numbers 1:46 we see that another census was taken several months later,…
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Pro-Choice and Belief in G-d
Recently my granddaughter and wife were talking about the right to abortion and how they were afraid it would be overturned by a more conservative court. My wife yelled, “It’s my body and they have no right to tell me…
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The Tenth of Teves
What event does the Fast of the Tenth of Teves commemorate? It commemorates the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian emporer (2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4; Ezekiel 24:1-2).
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Mishnah, Gemara, and Talmud
What are the Mishnah, the Gemara, and the Talmud? The Mishnah is a collection of the laws that were given to Moses orally or that were instituted by the courts over the centuries following Moses’ time. It was compiled by…