In this week’s Torah portion, Shoftim, the Torah teaches us a fascinating mitzvah concerning every Jewish King: Deut. 17:18 And it will be, when he sits upon his royal throne, that he shall write for ...

A true leader is one who first and foremost rules over himself and his emotions. A person who can be overtaken by negative emotions cannot serve as a leader. In the weekly Torah portion Shoftim, the ...

“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he ...

I can remember one of the first spiritual-psychological Chasidic texts that I studied, a text that opened the gates to a lifetime of study. When I was about 28 years old – 1982 – one of my teachers ...

7:31 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: 8:32 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends, Rabbenu Tam: 9:00 p.m. E.D.T. Earliest time for Tallis and Tefillin: 5:15 a.m. NYC E.D.T ...

Shoftim, the Torah portion we read this week, deals with Divine arrangement of the political structure ahead of the Jewish nation’s entry into the Holy Land. Among other issues, the parasha deals with ...

Mesorah is commonly associated with the transmission of Torah. For some, it is a meta-halachic concept: regardless of what the halachah (Jewish law) says, there is a past tradition that must not be ...

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Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The story of the Satmar Bikur Cholim and why does the Parsha of Re'eh have 64 Columns of Likutei Torah and Parshas Shoftim has none. Video Shabbos Night ...

The power of the legal system is in many ways the closest humans can come to godliness. It is through the rule of law that humans create order out of chaos, rein in the powerful from abusing the weak, ...