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A New Strategy for Tefilah (Prayer)

Parashas Shoftim: The Eleven Nations of America and the Seven Nations of Canaan

Announcement: Dialing Back the Daily Blogging

Parashas Vaeschanan: Methodology Battle - Ibn Ezra vs. Malbim

Tu b'Av and the Joy of National Cognitive Dissonance

Mishlei 29:9 - The Fool's Dirty Debate Tactics

The Implications of Chazal's "Godless Kiruv" Approach

Tishah b'Av 5778: Kinnah #13 - Where is "So"?

Haftaras Devarim: Permanent Stains

What is Ruach ha'Kodesh? (Rambam)

Mishlei 3:19-26 - Mishleic Security in God

Honoring Our Non-Jewish Elders

Excessive Righteousness and Foolish Piety

Mattos/Masei: Who is to Blame?

How Thomas Paine Forgot Sinai

Mishlei 22:22-23 - Stealing from the Poor

Learning on Vacation: Advice from My Rosh ha'Yeshiva

Righteous Testimony from an Actual Mamzer

Parashas Pinchas: The Killer Kohen

Mortimer Adler's Kryptonite

Mishlei 21:1 - Mishleic Fatalism

What is Emunas Chachamim?

Conversations with non-Jewish English Teachers

Parashas Balak: Bilam as a Teacher of Ethics

Rambam: On Teaching Young Children about Hashem

Tehilim 146: Do Not Trust in Noble Benefactors

Bruner and the Rambam: an Unlikely Alliance

God's Preferred Pronoun

Parashas Chukas: Three Types of Reasons for Mitzvos

Parashas Chukas: No - it was NOT "Meant to Be"

Mishlei 12:9 - Investing in Kavod

Musings on the Wisdom of Charles Ives

Kadesh Atzmecha b'Assur Lach

Parashas Korach: Three Types of Machlokes

Tehilim 23: The Lord is My Shepherd

Tehilim 92: Mizmor Shir l'Yom ha'Shabbos

18 Insights from My Laptop Yissurin

How to Learn Tehilim (Psalms)

Parashas Shelach: The Torah's View of Temptation

Adler: The Realm of Doubt

Mishlei 17:8 - Blinded by Bribes

"I Ordered a Tall, Not a Grande!"

My Grandfather and the Volcano Goddess

The Alternative Version of the Four Sons (Incomplete)

Human Expectations and Divine Redemption