Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Recently, after a few incidents of anti-Semitic attacks, I came to a local shul (synagogue) during the day, only to find it locked. […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Do Torah-believing Jews believe in dinosaurs? If we don’t, how do we explain the finding of 230-million-year-old dinosaur fossils? Rabbi Chaim Mintz responds: […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Since everything that happens is from God and the Nazis were merely agents to carry out His Master Plan, why are people always […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I find myself so busy sometimes that I seem to lose track of thinking about God being part of my life. How can […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz You always talk about God being so benevolent and compassionate. If that is the case, why do we have the concept of “Keil […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Before bringing the Great Flood (Mabul), God declared that man is so evil that He regrets having created him. Since God knows everything […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz My seven-year-old child asked me the following: How can we say that God is everywhere, if it is impossible for anyone to be […]
Confounding Criticism In this week’s Torah reading, Yitro (Jethro), the father-in-law of Moshe (Moses), joins the Jews in the desert. The following day, after Yitro enters the camp of the […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I heard that we are supposed to taste the Shabbat food before Shabbat. What is the reason for this, and does the Rabbi […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz When Yitro arrived in the desert to join the Jewish People, he criticized Moshe (Moses)’s handling of the court system and offered him […]
