On Human Dignity – A parsha post by TorahTutors.org tutor Rabbi Dr. Stuart Fischman
https://www.webyeshiva.org/parshat-ki-tetzeh-2022/
A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Sacrificing One Life for Many (and more)
Time for a Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit; real Torah, from real TorahTutors sessions. A TorahTutors student encountered some overlap between halachic complexity and biblical narrative. II Shmuel Chapter 20 tells of Sheva ben Bichri’s rebellion against King David. When David’s agents caught up with him, they besieged the city he was in and began battering the…
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Ten Tests of Tradition
As many students are heading back to school, thoughts of testing may be in the air. One TorahTutors student reviewing the stories of Avraham got to discuss a very different kind of test with his tutor. Tradition has it that God tested Avraham 10 times, and he passed all ten. But if God knows everything…
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Do You Believe in Magic? – A parsha post by TorahTutors.org tutor Rabbi Dr. Stuart Fischman
https://www.webyeshiva.org/parshat-shoftim-2022/
A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About What Not to Do to God
After a brief hiatus last week, we’re back with an ambiguous verse at the beginning of this week’s Torah portion. A TorahTutors student learned that Devarim 12:2-3 states “You shall surely destroy all the places…and break down their altars…” – an apparently straightforward instruction to wipe out idolatry. Of course, even the apparently straightforward must…
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Permission to Eat Meat – a parsha post by TorahTutors.org tutor Rabbi Dr. Stuart Fischman
https://www.webyeshiva.org/parshat-reeh-2022/
Old, But Not in the Way – A parsha post by TorahTutors.org tutor Rabbi Dr. Stuart Fischman
https://www.webyeshiva.org/parshat-ekev-2022/
Divine Consolation – A parsha post by TorahTutors.org tutor Rabbi Dr. Stuart Fischman
https://www.webyeshiva.org/parshat-veetchanan-2022/
A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Love, Hate, Sin, and Repentance
With Tisha B’Av just behind us, we may be thinking about the idea of “baseless hatred,” which the Gemara (Yoma 9b) gives as the reason the second Beit Hamikdash was destroyed. We may quite appropriately be thinking about ways to eradicate such discord from our people, and repair the sin that led to our exile.…
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Study and Deeds and the Beit Hamikdash
“When I was studying in Israel after high school, my roommate and I had some interesting late-night conversations. One of our favorite recurring themes was a debate that, as we discovered, showed up long before our gap year – for instance, in the following Talmudic passage: Rabbi Tarfon and the Elders were reclining in the…
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