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I was learning a little bit of Sotah and I wanted to share the following Gemorah and my thoughts on it. Footnotes for explanations are found at the bottom as well as a link to the original site where the translation is from.
In the Gemorah on 22B it...
There are often huge divides between what something is ideally supposed to be and in reality what it ends up being. The divide that I want to discuss is that which exists in modern orthodoxy. How did the ideology depart from reality in such a severe...
In this weeks parsha we have the birth of Yaakov and Eisuv. When the pasuk refers to the naming of Eisuv it states that "Vayikrau shmo Eisuv" (They called him Eisuv). However, by Yaakov it states "Vayikra Shmo Yaakov" (He called him Yaakov). Why the...
In this week's parsha of Chayei Sarah the pasuk refers to Avraham as Zaken, Old. The question here is why only now, after Sarah's death, does the Torah refer to Avraham as Zaken? Even when Avraham was 100 the torah still did not refer to him as Zaken,...
In this week's parsha after G-D destroys Sdom but before the Akeida, we have the incident where Avraham and Sarah go to the land of Avimelech. There are some similarities here to the happenstance of when Avraham and Sarah went to Egypt, but by in large...
