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Torah Questions

I’m reading the Michael Lewis book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. His opening protagonist is Steve Eisman, who started to study Talmud as a teenager to find mistakes in it. When he made his billions, he founded a … Continue reading

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What Is A Ritual?

“A ritual is a physical expression of a value,” says Dennis Prager in his 2004 lecture on Deut. 26. “It took me about 50 years to figure that out. I wish you knew how much struggle is behind a simple … Continue reading

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An Orthodox Memoir

From The Jewish Press: It takes courage and guts for a well-known person in the Orthodox world to write a memoir, a personal account sharing chapters of her life, which include how she became frum. On May 11 in New … Continue reading

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