Parashat Hashavua: The Challenges of Time and Unity – A Frank Discussion
Over the 23 years I have been putting out Eretz Hemdah’s Hemdat Yamim, my preferred choice of a dvar Torah for parashat hashavua has been to translate our...
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Rav Daniel Mann
Ask the Rabbi: Baruch Shem … at the Wrong Time
Question : Putting on tefillin , I (an Ashkenazi), after reciting “ … l’haniach tefillin ” and fastening the shel yad , recited “ Baruch shem k’vod malchuto...
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Rav Daniel Mann
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Hoping to Create a Kosher Ship to Palestine – #197
Date and Place : 15 Iyar 5669, Yafo
Recipient : Yekutiel Menkowitz, a wealthy Jew from Vilna, who had great love for the Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael and was...
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Eretz Hemdah
P’ninat Mishpat: How to Take Payment from A Guarantor – part lII
(based on ruling 82124 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts) Case : The defendant (= def ) hired the plaintiff (= pl ) to start a girls’...
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Eretz Hemdah