OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA SANHEDRIN DAF 20 Building the Beis HaMikdash after Entering Eretz Yisroel - Rabbi Genak and Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA SANHEDRIN DAF 19 The King Cannot Forgo His Honor -Rabbi Genak and Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH Vaeschanan 5777 By Rabbi Shalom Rosner

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RABBI WEIN ON VAETCHANAN – NACHAMU 5777

Moshe’s final heartfelt appeal to the merciful God of Israel is somehow refused and of no avail. He will not be allowed to enter the Land of Israel. One can only feel the bitter disappointment and frustration that he must have experienced at this response. Nevertheless, he continues in his role as teacher and leader of Israel even until his final day.

RABBI WEIN ON FAKE RELIGION

One of the many troublesome trends existing in our societies is the elevation of issues that are basically political and even monetary, to the level of religious faith and practice. The current struggle, mainly in the media and not so much on the ground itself, regarding the installation of metal detectors on the Temple Mount, is an example of making a security and political issue into a matter of holy war and belief.

OU TORAH Va’etchanan: Shattered Tablets By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

We were young then. They were old—in our eyes, very old. We were the students, barely out of high school and studying in the beit midrash of our yeshiva in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Some of us were on the path toward rabbinic ordination, but most of us were simply spending a year or two prolonging our religious studies and wondering what to do with our lives.

OU TORAH Philosophy or Prophecy? By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

What was the first commandment? On this there are two fascinating disagreements in Judaism. One was between Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) and the author of the Halakhot Gedolot, written in the period of the Gaonim, probably by R. Shimon Kayyara (eighth century), that for the first time enumerated in a systematic way the 613 commands. The other was between Maimonides and the poet and thinker Judah Halevi (c. 1080-c.1145). These were two different arguments, and they touched, as we will see, on fundamentals of faith.