Ha’azinu — When Bravado is Banned (and links to other pieces)
It’s odd that, when Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua transmit the shirah of Haazinu to the people, the Torah refers to Yehoshua as Hoshea (Devarim 32:44), his original name. Moshe, of course, had changed his...
Open Orthodoxy’s New Sanction of Lesbian Relationships
Open Orthodoxy has just endorsed lesbian marriage and intimate relations. No, this is not a typo or exaggeration. Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, who was the first graduate of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) and now serves...
Nitzavim – How to Perform a Miracle
As is the case with any question about nature, when a child asks why the sky is blue, the answer you give (here, that blue light is scattered more than other colors) will elicit...
Pagers in the Parshah
Understood. This is what rabbis do. They will always come up with a connection between events of the week and the parshah. Trust me. That is not what this is about. I had earlier...
Ki Savo – Getting It Into Our Heads
From its opening words through many of the parsha‘s laws and instructions, Eretz Yisrael is central: Bikkurim, maasros, the settings-up of the Torah-inscribed stones, the brachos and klalos on Har Grizim and Har Eival. ...
A Different Sort of Parting Shot
I think it time that I step down from my role as co-editor of Cross-Currents, returning it to Rabbi Adlerstein’s full editorial supervision, given my other obligations.
Parting Shot
Dear Michael, I’ll start with the least important point, to get it out of the way: Pas moi! Maybe check the last few pieces I posted before the one that gives you grief. You...
Ki Seitzei – Butterflies and Baker’s Bread
The ben sorer umoreh is judged al sheim sofo ““ because of where, on the evidence of the present, the youth’s life is headed. And his very existence, Chazal say, is the result of...
Rav Avrohom Ausband, zt”l
He strongly influenced the lives of thousands of talmidim and followers. They ““ and others like myself, who also gained from him ““ are in shock over his petirah. It occurred as we could...
