Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I can’t comprehend how the Jewish people could commit the sin of the Golden Calf! How, after witnessing the Ten Plagues, the Splitting […]
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Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz The other day, I was with a friend and asked him why he wasn’t eating a certain food. “Isn’t it kosher?” I asked. […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Rabbi, you always talk about each individual doing his part in bringing the Final Redemption (the geulah). This sounds like such a massive, […]
Post-Pesach Musings Who doesn’t have a few post-Pesach pounds to shed? With all the food being served over Yom Tov, and with the types of food being so different from […]
Moshe’s Honest Confession Sacrifices, in general, contain complex laws as to when certain portions of them should be eaten and by whom. An interesting episode, concerning these laws, transpired in […]
Pesach Prep Panic As I walked into a store a few weeks ago, I got a chill and I shuddered. That’s right, the store was setting up the shelves for […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I can’t help but feel a sense of relief on days we omit Tachanun (a supplication prayer), such as the month of Nissan […]
The Torah’s Sacrificial System The Torah reading this week discusses the laws of various sacrifices (which were brought at the times of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and Beit Hamikdash). These sacrifices […]
The Custom of Reading Shir HaShirim on Pesach (Passover) On Shabbat Chol HaMo’ed Pesach (or if there is no Shabbat Chol HaMo’ed, then on the seventh or eighth day of […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz There are many stories in the Talmud and Midrash that seem farfetched, even impossible. Am I really supposed to take all of them […]