by moi613 | Aug 30, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, everyone “knows” judaism goes by the mother. but when i actually look for the source i find one derasha, ki yasir es bincha (devarim 7:4), read in kiddushin 68b to teach that the child of a non jewish woman follows her, while the child of a jewish...
by moi613 | Aug 30, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, jealousy is probably the most common feeling in the world and the Torah talks about it constantly, but the practical halacha is fuzzy. people throw around lo tachmod like it covers everything, and then the gemara says kinas sofrim tarbeh chachmah like jealousy...
by moi613 | Aug 30, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, a lot of frum people grow up with the sense that keeping pets is not something a frum house does, and then other families have dogs and cats and nobody says a word. so what does the Torah actually say? 1. is there any issue with keeping a pet at all? the gemara...
by moi613 | Aug 28, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, judaism is supposed to be about bringing a person closer to Hashem. deracheha darchei noam (mishlei 3:17), and hillel tells the potential convert that the whole Torah on one foot is what is hateful to you do not do to your friend (shabbos 31a). but a lot of...
by moi613 | Aug 28, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, the whole structure of the Torah seems to be that everything is permitted except what the Torah and chazal specifically forbid. nobody has to prove something is mutar before doing it, the burden is the other way. but actual frum life often feels like the...
by moi613 | Aug 28, 2026 | Hashkafa
rabbi, there is a well known teaching quoted in the name of the arizal (eitz chaim, the exact mareh makom is hard to pin down) that in the ikvesa d’meshicha, the generation right before moshiach, an unusual number of the neshamos that come into the world are...
