On November 7, 2007, the old TorahAnytime/KolYakov site posted Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi’s debate with Christian teacher Daniel Mann under the title “The Debate – Rabbi vs. Christian,” split into two parts. The frum takeaway was pretty predictable: Mizrachi destroyed him.…
By Yitzchok Landa | November 25, 2025 “How could you endorse Mamdani?” Tough questions for Satmar askan Rabbi Moishe Indig Rabbi Moishe Indig never wanted to be a communal askan, yet this reluctant leader has been able to sway elections and accrue political friends with…
By Shmuel Landesman – 2 Adar 5783 – February 22, 2023 Rav Abba Bronspigel, popular rosh yeshiva at RIETS and founding rosh yeshiva of Bais Medrash L’Talmud at Lander College for Men, died on Shabbos, February 18 in Lakewood, N.J.…
From the Latin Vulgate: (https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/numbers/15.html) “loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos ut faciant sibi fimbrias per angulos palliorum ponentes in eis vittas hyacinthinas “ Wycliffe translation (2 centuries before King James – https://www.biblestudytools.com/wyc/numbers/15.html): “Speak thou to the sons of Israel,…
From Gil Student here: https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/01/bareheaded-and-uncensored/ “R. David Zvi Hoffmann was the leading halakhic decisor in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. A brilliant Talmudist and academic scholar, he succeeded R. Azriel Hildesheimer as rector of the Orthodox rabbinic…
Back in 2001, Deborah Schoenman wrote a memorable piece for the New York Post called “Muscle Tov” featuring a Hasidic workout video. I remember clipping the piece, only for someone later on to steal it. Since then I’ve been unable…
We want to have some piece of Chazal that says murex trunculus is the Chilazon for Techeiles – purfura. The Raavya is known about, as was discovered by Bezalel Naor 30 years ago, that Techeiles is purfurin.People didn’t know what…
Years ago I saw videos of the eery parallel between the ten sons of Haman and ten Nazi war criminals at the 1946 Nuremberg Trials. In 1946, ten convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged in Nuremberg on October 16th, the…
by Kingsbury Smith Streicher walking to the gallows: “…He [Streicher] walked steadily the six feet to the first wooden step but his face was twitching. “As the guards stopped him at the bottom of the steps for identification formality he…
After the destruction of the 2nd temple, it was less certain which fish/squid was used and the process to make the dye. Still the mitzva of Tzitzis exists, albeit in a less than perfect manner. R’ Gershon Henoch Leiner in…