Archive - B'chol D'rachecha

May 2025

Beards and Payos: When Fashion Drifts Away from Halacha

According to Rabbi S.R.

May 21 •

L'shem Yichud: Do You Understand What You're Actually Saying?

Some days you just can’t open a regular Artscroll siddur without falling down a deep rabbit hole of theological controversy.

May 8 •

April 2025

When 7+7 Might Not = 14

By all accounts, the fourteenth year after Yehoshua led our ancestors across the Jordan into Israel was eventful.

Apr 28 •

Assessing the Modern "Yeshivishe" Approach to Torah Learning

I predict that this post - more than all the others - is going to generate some serious push back.

Apr 23 •

Who Really Expects a Third Mikdash?

A friend of mine decided to get training in the full nikkur process.

Apr 17 •

Must One Believe That the Zohar Is Authoritative?

In the spring of 1914, around 125 Jerusalem Ashkenazi and Sefardi Jews (most of them presumably rabbis) signed a document containing violent curses…

Apr 15 •

Mechiras Chometz: Overselling a Mitzvah

In the larger scheme of things, selling chometz really isn't all that important.

Apr 6 •

March 2025

When Haggada Numbers Aren't Meant to be Taken Literally

The Haggada famously compares God's treatment of the Egyptians during the plagues to they way He later dealt with them at the Sea:

Mar 31 •

Strange Stories and Reverse Allegories

Through the course of my 20-year yeshiva high school teaching career, my style evolved.

Mar 2 •

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