The death of a great leader is felt across an entire nation. The Jewish people have unfortunately become very familiar with this sentiment over the past year, in which many of our greatest Gedolim and ...

And Hashem said to Avram, “Go for yourself from your land, from your birth place, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” – Bereishis 12:1 With these words begins one of the ...

Two of my recent articles in Arutz Sheva, The Changing of an Era: Remembering Rav Yitzchok Hutner's Disciples (Aug 2, 22) and The Changing of an Era, Part II: Rav Hutner's Disciples (Aug 8, 22) dealt ...

This week’s parshah opens up with the statement “Vayechi Yaakov b’eretz Mitzrayim shevah esreh shanah – “And Yaakov lived in Egypt for seventeen years.” The Bal HaTurim explains that the gematria of ...

Students sometimes ask – “Can Gedolim err?” HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook, of blessed memory, my Rosh Yeshiva at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, told us that great Rabbis and Tzaddikim can ...

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Her teacher also congratulates her by saying, Baruch shekevant ldaat gedolim and tells her that her interpretation is identical to the one of the great medieval commentators. Baruch shekevanta (kevant ...

‘Gedolim’ are human There seems to be a strong tendency and need, especially from members of the haredi and hassidic community, to view their religious and spiritual leaders as perfect. Ultra-orthodox ...