Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim
Rabbi Berel Wein Among the many commandments and values that are represented in this week’s double parsha, special attention seems to being paid to the intimate and marital relationships between people. The Torah lists for us those relationships which are considered to be incestuous, immoral, and forbidden. There is perhaps no area of human behavior […]
Saying Amein to Birkas Kohanim
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Rabbi Shragga Kallus delivered an enthralling and engaging lecture filled with Torah riddles. One such riddle was: “What are two scenarios where a person would answer ‘amein’ in the middle of his private Shemoneh Esrei?” Typically, all responses are forbidden then. He offered two scenarios. One is relatively rare (still valid as […]
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
Allan Rolnick, CPA Here in America, we’re world champs at “fake it ‘til you make it.” Just look at Anna Delvey (Inventing Anna), Representative George Santos (if that’s really his name), Elizabeth Holmes (scheduled to report to prison by April 27), or Sam Bankman-Fried (cooling his heels under house arrest while he waits to get […]