Orthoprax

"I'm just wondering if you ever see any meaning or significance behind anything, or if you think that every thing throughout histor...

I went to R' Slifkin's speech tonight. On The Terror of Dinosaurs. I felt like I got to meet all these famous blogger personalities ...

This past Shabbos we read Parashat Shelach and within it we quote the last paragraph of Shema, the commandments dealing with tzitzit. One pa...

Much of how Jews deal with death is very to the point and meaningful. There is no glittery multi-thousand coffin-deluxe in tradition. At mos...

"I am always curious about which rituals people would keep for their own reasons. Would you be willing to share any other mitzvot or tr...

I made a comment the other day in front of a few yeshivah guys saying that if a guy goes to Israel for a whole year for the express purpose ...

After my previous post where I just used the Gemara as a reference, I decided to read more of the interesting discussions found on that page...

Take a look at the Rashi for Genesis 46:15. Rashi is concerned with why the Torah splits up the sons and daughters of Leah and Yaakov. The s...

I once heard from someone recently as they were explaining the merits of Orthodoxy in that we have so many mepharshim and they all give so m...

My response to the Wolf to how and why Judaism has any meaning if the foundations are not factually true: If we can turn some of the best th...