Days of Fasting: 10 of Tebet (Part 1/3)
This coming Thursday, January 5th 2012, corresponds to the 10th. of Tebet, a fast day, which commemorates three tragedies that happened to the Jewish...
Modern American Rabbis on celebrating New Year’s Day
We have written in previous HOTD about the various views of modern orthodox rabbis regarding the celebration of different American holidays (see here). All...
Shema Israel. Pasuq 4. Declaring our love of God.
(1)And you shall teach (these words) to your children, and you shall speak of them (2) when you are sitting in your house and...
Dating and Lashon haRa
Lashon haRa, i.e, telling something negative about somebody else, is one of the most serious prohibitions in our Tora and its effects could be...
Bioethics: Abortion and Jewish Law (1 of 4).
The case of abortion primarily discussed by the Talmud refers to what we call today "therapeutic abortion", i.e., when the life of the pregnant...
Shema Israel: Pasuq 3: “Words and the heart”
In previous weeks we've learned from Verse One the principles of Jewish faith (see here) and from Verse Two our duty to love our God...
Rabbi Isaac Lampronti (1679–1756)
Rabbi Isaac Lampronti was born in Ferrara, Italy. He studied Torah under the great Italian rabbis of his generation: Manoach Provençal and Isaac Chayim...
The 13 principles of Judaism: 3. God does not have a body
"The Creator, blessed be His name, has no bodily form, and bodily conditions cannot affect Him; He cannot be compared to nothing whatsoever."
Attributing to...
Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh mi-Modena (Venice 1571–1648)
Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh (Leon) mi-Modena was born in Venice in 1571.
A prodigious child, he studied Bible, Hebrew language, poetry, letter writing, voice, music, dancing,...
Shema Israel. Pasuq 2. “You shall love HaShem your God”
The words of the Shema Israel are so important that we say them three times a day, every day of our lives.
The first thing...
