Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:
- Aspaqlaria
- Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhoffer
- Rabbi Yaakov Feldman‘s classes:
- Modern Uberdox by Neil Harris
Recent posts from these blogs:
Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:
Recent posts from these blogs:
------------------------------ Rabbi Gil Student (aka The Big Boss Man) introduced an interesting issue in his peace on AI and the golem. https://www.torahmusings.com/2025/04/ai-golem-and-not-so-silly-questions/ AI, Golem and Not-So-Silly Questions ?The more important [...]
One of my grandchildren asked me why we are not allowed to eat before Havdalah. My immediate response was that it was like not being able to eat before kiddush [...]
Is one allowed to tell LH to AI? Does the issur require that the bad impression of someone actually gets spread, or is any exercising of this bad middah assur? [...]
If a man says Shema on a day that requires Tefillin, when Tefillin are available, and you don't, Ulla says (Berakhos 14b) that he is "ke'ilu mei'id eidus sheqer be'atzmo". [...]
There are certain times when a partnership with a non-Jew affects halacha (eg pidyon bchor). Is there a minimum percentage ownership required? Bsorot Tovot Joel Rich [...]
What does the fact that eli mistook chana for a shikora (drunk) because she was praying with her lips moving but her voice not heard say about how most people [...]
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:12:46AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Comment to blog discussing a girl?s elementary school?s gemara celebration And then no one in digest [...]
Sometimes, in life, we are faced with unanswerable questions. I recently experienced this myself, while I was reading Avodah Vol 43 Issue 26, and found myself confronted with the following [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 2: Neturei Karta:Looking Past the Shouts and Sloganshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/100805 [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOMgmq3EK4?si=s3ijCfmEuXH3XJ2Z]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Eitan | Growing from Their Strength, Building in Their Memory - GivechakThis drive is for Rabbi Eli Kaplan shlita's Mechina.Reb Eli is the grandson of Rabbi Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan zt"l [...]
No, the line of succession in Britain is not discussed in the podcast. The image for illustrative purpose only! Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 1:https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/riscahadaraaisa/100426Succession: Popes,Rebbes, and Roshei Yeshivah [...]
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel and Dr. Shani M. BechhoferScholar in Residence Programs, Lectures, Shiurim We both have a large and varied repertoire of topics and programs. We can also custom design programs. We [...]
Includes a new (and perhaps true!) insight on the unique language of being "yotzei" a mitzvah vs. being "mekayem" a mitzvah.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6PCh77lmc?si=e2w9GQBu7e60tuay]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic WhatsApp group [...]
Rischa D'Araisaאילו לא הוציאBonus Afikoman Episode:Haggadah Inspired Counter-Historyhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/99847 [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Finale Episode 26:כי ישאלךResponding to Feedback:Five Minute Answers toSix of Your Questionshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/99892 [...]
Deep SimchaReb Tzadok HaKohenon the Renewed Emotionsthe Seder is Supposed toProvoke and Elicit[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd7SA5qSktc?si=E-I7KW8Cv79CzGEZ]Sorry it got stopped in the middle of a sentence, Zoom does that randomly. I made the [...]
Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: The Pri Tzaddik (Reb Tzadok HaKohen) on the Avodas Hashem of the Seder NightTime: Apr 8, 2025 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US and [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZM1Ovk4VFY?si=BHW9MCKvGvYgpxhG]Inyana d'Yoma [...]
The one on top must be from the late '50s or early '60s as the one on bottom is from Yud Shvat 1970. In both pictures my grandfather zt"l is [...]
The Deeper Meaning and Purpose of Free Will.Connecting to Hashem with a Different Form of Dveykus.Spiritual and Conceptual Proximity.Digressions into Free Will of Angels and Aliens,and into Eis La'asos.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYEyQI9AzII?si=Pu-_aVJahnePNjGK] [...]
The school runs an annual privilege auction.Students bid for privileges from the teachers. My privilege is always a shiur on the topic of your choice to the audience of your [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 25:Attacks from Without and Within:WZO's Eretz HaKodesh SlateandYU's Hareni Clubhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/99318 [...]
Occasionally I feel it is appropriate to showcase one of Zohar Al Pi Pshat segments. This is one of those.The Distinctions, Union & Symbiosis of Day & Night, Light & Darkness[youtube [...]
Rav Dovid Lifshitz zt”l (whose 31st yahrzeit is today) often spoke about the connection between shaleim as wholeness, and that of another conjugation, “shalom“, peace. Shalom is not simply a cessation of violence. That [...]
Parashas Behar is a list of mitzvos. The first section is all about shemittah and yovel. A family’s ancestral land cannot be sold into perpetuity. Instead, if someone is forced [...]
This week I’d like to discuss three seemingly unrelated questions about the words of the tephillah: The focus of Shabbos Mussaf davening is the paragraph that begins “Tiqanta Shabbos…” What [...]
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]