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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Torah Features 322 Archived Articles Found in Torah Features Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 10 2011 Kosher And Non-Kosher Eggs By Raphael Grunfeld Generally speaking, any food produced by a non-kosher animal is non-kosher. Thus, the egg of a non-kosher bird is not kosher but the egg of a kosher bird, such as a chicken, is kosher. If one comes across an egg and does not know which bird laid it, how does one tell a non-kosher egg from a kosher egg? Read Article 2) Posted Nov 09 2011 Why Was Avraham Allowed To Perform Hachnasas Orchim? By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs At the beginning of this week's parshah the Torah writes extensively about Avraham Avinu's act of hachnasas orchim for the three men who were passing by his tent. Several Achronim are bothered by this action for the following reason: The first pasuk in the parshah says, "Vayeira eilav Hashem - And Hashem appeared to [Avraham]." Read Article 3) Posted Nov 09 2011 An Act That Echoes Through Time By Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier Avraham Avinu was commanded with a supreme test, and one of the greatest challenges ever presented to man: "Take your son, your only son, the son that you love " Read Article 4) Posted Nov 09 2011 Damaged Value By Rabbi Meir Orlian The beis medrash of Yeshiva Toras Mishpat was packed. The sound of Torah resonated through the beis medrash as the students and avreichim argued over the pages of Gemara and Shulchan Aruch. Read Article 5) Posted Nov 09 2011 Vayeira: Looking Back By Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l Hashem offers a gift of the greatest proportions: teshuvah. To paraphrase Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l, with teshuvah, no sin is too large -- and without it, no sin is too small. To be effective, teshuvah has certain conditions, and one is that it must be sincere. A superficial confession does not erase sin. Further, Hashem must see that one's teshuvah is complete; one has not only ceased to sin, but wishes to sin no longer. As sulphur and salt poured down on Sodom, Hashem offered to Lot and his family a final chance to do teshuvah and thus be spared from the destruction. That teshuvah had to be complete: He ordered explicitly, "Do not look behind you." Read Article 6) Posted Nov 02 2011 The Five-Star Hotel Called Life By Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier When Avraham Avinu was informed that his nephew Lot was captured, he waged war against the combined armies of the four kings. Miraculously, he was victorious and freed Lot. Read Article 7) Posted Nov 02 2011 Why Did Avraham Not Perform A Bris Earlier? By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs In this week's parshah, Hashem commands Avraham Avinu to perform the mitzvah of bris milah. We once discussed a question that several Achronim ask regarding this mitzvah, and I want to share some new thoughts on the matter. The Achronim ask that since the Gemaras in Kiddushin 82a and Yuma 28b say that Avraham kept the entire Torah, even though it was not yet given, why then did Avraham not perform a bris milah on himself earlier? Why did he wait until he was commanded to do so at age 99? Read Article 8) Posted Oct 26 2011 'Forget About It!' By Rabbi Meir Orlian Yanky was going through difficult times. "My company merged over a year ago and I got laid off," he poured his heart out to Moish, a neighbor. "I've been trying everywhere to get a job, but nothing's available." Read Article 9) Posted Oct 26 2011 Bitachon And Effort: Finding The Balance By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier Hashem appeared to Noach and told him the world had turned to wicked ways and was to be destroyed by a deluge. Hashem commanded Noach to build a teivah, an ark, so that he and his family would be saved. Read Article 10) Posted Oct 26 2011 Noach: Vengeance For Israel By Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l The world before the Flood was starkly different from the world today (as even science will attest), and the destruction of the world under a layer of boiling water was an event without parallel in nature or history. Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l, remarks on a fascinating aspect of the destruction that is often overlooked: the magnitude of the recovery. The renewal of human, animal and plant species from near annihilation was as much a miracle as the destruction itself. Read Article 11) Posted Oct 26 2011 *Was The Teivah* Made Of Stolen Materials? By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs** In this week's parshah Hashem tells Noach to build a teivah, for as the pasuk says, "assei lecha teivas - you shall make for yourself a teivah" (Bereishis 6:14). Hashem also instructs Noach to bring with him foods and provisions, for as the pasuk says, "v'ata kach lecha mikal ma'achal - and you shall take for yourself of every food" (6:21). Generally when the Torah writes "lecha,"it is to exclude stolen materials. As we find regarding the mitzvah of taking the four minim on the first day of Sukkos that they must not be stolen in order for you to fulfill this obligation, the pasuk says "lachem." So why was it necessary to tell Noach not to steal the materials and provisions for the teivah? Why would he have thought otherwise? Read Article 12) Posted Oct 26 2011 Kashering Meat By Rephael Grunfeld Strolling around an antique shop in Pennsylvania's Dutch Country, I was reunited with many of the items that inhabited my mother's kitchen. There was a scrubbing board and a metal oval-shaped tub with which one would scrub and wash clothes and a ringer through which one would dry them. I also saw a charred metal grate that reminded me of the one my mother used to kasher pieces of liver. Read Article 13) Posted Oct 18 2011 Eating In The Sukkah On Shemini Atzeret By Raphael Grunfeld What's the confusion with eating in the sukkah and Shemini Atzeret? If you took a poll of who does what in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret, it would go something like this: "Yes, we eat all meals in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret." "We do too, but without reciting 'Leishev Basukkah.' " "We only eat lunch in the sukkah but not dinner." "We make Kiddush in the sukkah and then eat in the house." "We don't eat any meals in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret." "We sleep in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret." "We don't." Read Article 14) Posted Oct 18 2011 The Beginning Of Time By Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier Read Article 15) Posted Oct 18 2011 *Is Shemini Atzeres* Its Own Yom Tov? By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs** On the eighth day of Sukkos we celebrate Shemini Atzeres. Regarding certain aspects we find that Shemini Atzeres is considered a separate Yom Tov; regarding others it is considered a part of the Yom Tov of Sukkos. Read Article 16) Posted Oct 18 2011 Bereishis: The Ultimate Good By Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l It's hard to remain sensitive to the importance of things we take for granted.And what do we take for granted more than light itself? Yet the Torah's opening words declare that light is of the utmost importance.In the simple and yet profound statement that light is "good," Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l, found a world of meaning.Light's intrinsic "goodness" stems from the role it plays in the foremost human occupation: recognizing Hashem. Read Article 17) Posted Oct 16 2011 Dwelling In Sukkot By Raphael Grunfeld The Torah proclaims the 15th of Tishrei the beginning of the seven-day festival of Sukkot and requires that during this festival we dwell in sukkot. Typically, the Torah gives no reason for its commandments and we are left to fathom them for ourselves. But the mitzvah of sukkot has a stated reason, "That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt." Read Article 18) Posted Oct 16 2011 Lulav Bang-Up By Rabbi Meir Orlian Simcha walked into the dorm room holding his arba minim. "Look what I got," he said to his roommate, Aryeh. "A beautiful lulav and esrog!" Read Article 19) Posted Oct 16 2011 Be Brave, Be Bold By Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier In the very last pasukim of the Torah, Hashem recounts the greatness of Moshe Rabbeinu. Read Article 20) Posted Oct 16 2011 V'zos Haberachah: Everything Is Planned By Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l The poetic yet cryptic language in the Torah's final portion speaks of lofty principles such as Hashem's personal guidance over all the affairs of the world, and alludes to the fact that all these affairs are manipulated for the sake (and welfare) of Israel. Read Article 322 Archived Articles Found in Torah Features Next 20 Articles >
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