What other law book discusses law by giving examples of having people breaking the law.  We have the Torah, it starts with the sin of Adam and Eve and goes into Kain’s jealousy of Abel’s sacrifice being accepted by G-d, while his was rejected. Jealousy, right up there.  I remember the first time I…

A BISSEL TORAH: EIKEV: THE BLACKSMITHING OF THE JEWS REPORTING FROM JLI RHODE ISLAND By: Suri Davis   Over the last year, I decided to read the biographies of the major Rebbes and figures of historical Lubavitch.  All the Lubavitch rabbis were jailed for their religious practice including the last Rebbe, who had given a…

  We recall Elijah the Prophet several times during the year.  Every week, on Saturday night, as Shabbos is ebbing, and the extra Shabbos soul is waning from within us, we call out and sing for the prophet Elijah to come and announce the coming of the Messiah, the redeemer.  We are in the process…

  Ethics of Our Father 1:14: משנה אבות א׳:י״ד (יד) הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתַי: Pirkei Avot 1:14 (14) He [Rabbi Hillel] used to say: If I am not for me, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone,…

THE RIGHT TO DIE WITH DIGNITY By: Lenore S. Davis, Esq., LLM Thirty years ago, as I commuted on the LIRR, I was a daily Wall Street Journal reader.  I remember long ao, an op-ed on euthanasia, the right to determine when and how one wants to die.  The premise was that a horse that…

  There is a common saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  There are times when people have good intentions, but their execution strays. We know that a person is not held accountable if he has thoughts of sinning and does not sin.  We are also taught that those who have…

  I have a car that is for my driving teenagers.  The only driver, though, lives in Israel now, so the car hasn’t been driven for a while.  It needed an inspection, but it appears that a car needs to be driven a minimum amount of miles, and so my car failed inspection.  What to…

  I was at Riki Fishbein’s shiur this week, BH I made it.  As an aside, HKBH blessed me with an amazing block.  Pirkei Avoth on Shabbos with Rebbetzin Chanie Wolowik, parshah on Wednesdays at Rebbetzin Riki Fishbein, and Estelle, Tzippy, Matana, Leba, Rochel, Lisa, Ilana, Fran, Melody, Ilana, Rivkie and Mindy are role models…

  The Five Towns community is up in arms  over the sale of the 55 acre Woodmere Club to private investors.  In a community created in the 1700s with guests as rich as George Washington and the revolutionaries, we are caught ill prepared for further development, but let me start at the beginning.   BACKGROUND…