It was in the first month of the second year on the first of the month that the Mishkan was erected. (Shemos 40:17) As we culminate the construction of the Mishkan in this week’s Parshas Vayakhel / Pekudei, and launch into Sefer Vayikra next week, we are again challenged by a methodology to teach beginners... Read more »
In 2017, we live in a world where there's a daily war on information and "emes." Words like “fake news” and “alternative facts” are flying around. It seems like many years ago when fake news was unusual when baseball player Roger Clemens said that he "misremembered" critical facts when he was questioned about
The Talmud teaches (Sotah 37b) that the Torah was taught in three locations: Har Sinai, the Tent of Meeting, and the Plains of Moav: Rabbi Yishmael said: The general principles [of the mitzvos] were stated at Sinai, and the details [of each were taught] in the Tent of Meeting. Rabbi Akiva said: The principles and the 
