Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

 Recently in Binah magazine there was a claim that Einstein grew up in a frum family but went astray because of foreign influences. The  pur...

  Or HaChaim(Shemos 18:21I) have given some thought as to the reason why Yitro merited that this whole portion bears his name. While it is t...

  https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/politics/republican-response-sarah-huckabee-sanders-biden-sotu/index.html Sanders called Biden “unfit t...

  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/08/republicans-props-biden-state-of-the-union-00081774 This time, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Gree...

  https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-with-a-brain-sees-the-gop-as-the-party-of-normal?ref=home Sanders’ speech seemed to be aimed almost e...

 baal haturim (Bereishis 32 26) ויגע בכף ירכו לראות אם הוא מלאך כמותו אם היו לו קפיצים שהמלאכים אין להם קפיצים. א''נ לפוסלו מן העבוד...

 There is a question regarding interlocking ones fingers. According to the halacha it is permitted but Kabbala says not to do it. http://re...

 Avos DeRav Nosson (12:06) Even the Holy Blessed One made peace in the heights, for He did not call ten angels Gabriel, ten angels Michael, ...

  https://outorah.org/p/22794/ There is, for example, a famous argument between the schools of Hillel and Shammai as to what to say about th...

  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1049008/jewish/Telling-the-Truth-and-When-It-Is-Permissible-to-Be-Less-Than-Honest.htm One ...

  https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1497848 The head of the Chabad yeshiva in Safed, Gari Wilshansky , in a shocking conversation about the state ...

 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/jim-jordan-first-day-unfit-judiciary-committee.html Jordan is a classic demagogue. When present...

This Shabbos I was in Beis Shemesh for a grandson's bar mitzva. Got to speak with an expert on Chareidi society. What is the biggest cha...

 On Shabbos one of my granddaughters was visiting She is studying teaching social skills to autistic children. I asked what she was currentl...