Matzav Inbox: How Do We Deal With Gossipers and Baalei Lashon Hara?
Dear Matzav Inbox, We must speak out about something that’s causing tremendous harm in our communities today: lashon hara, gossip, and even innocent-sounding innuendo. The Chofetz Chaim makes it...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The Cancerous Gvir Culture
Dear Matzav Inbox, I’ve had enough. Enough of the unholy obsession with money that has overtaken our communities, enough of the idol worship of the so-called “Gvirim” in our midst who are raised on a...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The Agudah Blows It Again
Dear Matzav Inbox, Once again, Agudas Yisroel of America has completely missed the mark. What do I mean? Let’s talk for a moment about the 25th annual Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah, which will take...
View ArticleBelieve in Yourself
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz With Parshas Vayechi, the fascinating sefer of Bereishis draws to a close. Without giving any detail about anything that went on in Yaakov’s life during his seventeen years...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Please Reconsider Your Yeshiva Week Trip to Los Angeles This Year
Dear Matzav Inbox, For many Orthodox Jewish families, “Yeshiva Week” has become synonymous with travel. Families have become accustomed to take a mid-winter trip to warm climates to thaw out from the...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Lakewood, Are You Prepared for a Fire Emergency?
Dear Residents of Lakewood, NJ, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to take a moment to express my deep appreciation for the dedication and tireless efforts of our local elected officials....
View ArticlePause Before You Post
Communicated by Misaskim The call came while Simcha was driving his friend Moshe and his wife to a wedding. An unfamiliar number flashed on his screen. It was the chevra kaddisha. “Are you on speaker?”...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: This Hostage Deal is an Utter Travesty
Dear Matzav Inbox, It is an utter travesty that Israel, the only democratic nation in the Middle East, finds itself cornered into negotiating with Hamas, a brutal and barbaric terrorist...
View ArticleSparks Amidst the Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This week, we begin the study of Seder Shemos, recounting the story of Yaakov’s descendants in Mitzrayim. First, we learn of their subjugation and servitude, followed by...
View ArticleALAN DERSHOWITZ: The Israel Hostage Deal Is Extortion
By Professor Alan Dershowitz, The Daily Caller The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion. Would...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Our Unhealthy Obsession with Politics and Trump
Dear Matzav Inbox, It is honestly astounding how the frum community has been swept up in the frenzy of politics, with so many putting all their energy into idolizing President Trump and obsessing over...
View ArticleUnending Challenges, Unbending Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Eretz Yisroel is a nation fraught with disagreements, tragedies, and profound challenges. Since its inception, Israel has faced large and small problems, oscillating between...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The Financial Struggles of a Young Frum Family
Dear Matzav Inbox, As a young frum family, we are finding it increasingly impossible to make ends meet, even as we tighten our belts and cut back on anything that’s not absolutely essential. It’s hard...
View ArticleLight Through Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The world is moving so fast that we can barely keep track of what is going on. After experiencing four years of a weak, ineffective, and incompetent leader who caused the...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The Real Hypocrisy of “Yeshiva Week,” A.K.A. Midwinter Vacation
Dear Matzav Inbox, I am writing about the glaring hypocrisy that is “Yeshiva Week,” or “Midwinter Vacation.” (The first is the Modox term that somehow has become en vogue. Frankly, it’s weird, because...
View ArticleChizuk: Agam Taught Emunah to Millions of Yidden
By Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman Yeshiva Ohr Somayach The actions of *Agam Berger* תחי’ and her mother are something that one witnesses maybe once in a lifetime. That a mother and a daughter independently...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The “I Only Teach Metzuyanim” Sickness
Dear Matzav Inbox, I took a week to gather my thoughts after the recent mesivta farher/application debacle. I needed time to calm down and clear my mind before writing this letter. I am deeply troubled...
View ArticleCould Trump’s Call to Resettle Gazans End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict...
By Alex Traiman President Donald Trump, sitting alongside Israeli Prime Binyomin Netanyahu, issued a geopolitical earthquake on Tuesday, doubling down on calls to resettle “1.7 or 1.8 million”...
View ArticleChoose the Path of Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Recently, we’ve become all too familiar with the heartbreaking news from Eretz Yisroel: surprise attacks, bombings, hostages, deaths, and soldiers killed and suffering grave...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: President Trump, You Have Failed Us With the Hostages!
Dear Editor, We are writing this letter with heavy hearts, deeply torn between our gratitude for all that President Trump has done for us and Eretz Yisroel, and the undeniable frustration and anguish...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Shabbos
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Finally, after generations of enslavement in Mitzrayim and a dramatic redemption, Klal Yisroel reaches the apex of creation, standing at Har Sinai and receiving the Torah...
View ArticleFidelity to the Truth
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We are meant to learn lessons from current events. Today’s headlines connect to the first Rashi in this week’s parsha. A new president took office three weeks ago, promising...
View ArticleWhat Is Happening?
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Monsters. There is no other way to describe them. Bloodthirsty killers. How long will the world continue to play games with them, supporting them, agitating for them,...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Noise During Megillah Laining: A Call for Reflection and a...
Dear Matzav Inbox, Each year, as Purim approaches, we eagerly anticipate the sacred and joyous mitzvah of hearing the Megillah. It is a time to celebrate and relive the miracle of our ancestors’...
View ArticleWe Are Here!
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz People wonder how we can celebrate Purim with true joy while a war is going on in Eretz Yisroel. People ask us how we can sing when Jews are being held hostage in terrible...
View ArticleWhat Seems Broken Could Really be Building
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber In the eighth perek of Megillas Esther, the passuk tells us that Haman’s estate was given to Esther and Mordechai. The Satmar Rebbe explains that had Mordechai been provided...
View ArticleBe Smart, Be Happy
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This year’s Purim was different from most years. We had the rare occurrence of celebrating the special day on a Friday, with the specter of Shabbos hanging over us....
View ArticleThe Tesla Effect
By Avrohom Birnbaum No, this article is not about the new affinity for electric cars that seems to have taken hold in the frum community. Everywhere you go, you see frum Yidden driving electric cars,...
View ArticleThe Song of Pesach
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz I am writing this on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, grateful to have arrived at the month of geulah—both for the past and, hopefully, for the present as well. Just as the month was...
View ArticleBeyond Imperfection – A Pesach Perspective
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber Menachem Chaifetz was a bochur in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin in the 1990s. When he became engaged to the daughter of Rav Avrohom Turin zt”l, the esteemed Mashgiach of Scranton...
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