Matzav 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...
View ArticleShock Poll: 55% of Leftists Believe It’s Justifiable to Assassinate Trump
By John Nolte, Breitbart A troubling new study backs up what has become obvious since the November presidential election: the political left is seeking to normalize and use violence to achieve its...
View ArticleThe Essence of Pesach
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The essence of the Haggadah and Pesach is the relationship between father and son and the obligation for a father to transmit to his son the story of the geulah from...
View ArticleLegacy of the Unshaken
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Yom Tov provides an idyllic break from the ups and downs of life. Each day of the yemei chol is a battle between our yeitzer tov and yeitzer hora. Throughout the day, we...
View ArticleThe Jerusalem Program: A Line-by-Line Analysis
By S. Rosen I recently heard Rabbi Avi Shafran on Halacha Headlines with Dovid Lichtenstein explain that the primary rabbinic objection to voting in the WZO elections is the technical requirement to...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: A New Approach to Shidduchim
Dear Matzav Inbox, Why do we allow the shidduch process to consume us? Anyone in the parshah—whether for themselves or for their children—knows the crushing anxiety that accompanies the research phase...
View ArticleThe Iyar Journey
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Having recently celebrated Pesach, we are now in the Sefirah period, counting towards Shavuos and striving each day to refine ourselves, so that we may be worthy and prepared...
View ArticleLeimor: Living With Holiness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This week, as we study the parshiyos of Acharei Mos and Kedoshim, we are reminded of our sacred task as Jews navigating a turbulent world. Parshas Kedoshim begins with a...
View ArticleA Lag Ba’omer Reflection: The Majesty Within
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Lag Ba’omer is one of those days on the Jewish calendar that the people themselves have turned into a day of great celebration. The Shulchan Aruch doesn’t mention anything...
View ArticleOur Identity
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz President Donald Trump returned from a highly publicized and triumphant visit to three Arab capitals, bringing with him promises of over $1 trillion in investments in the...
View ArticleOpinion: The Murder of the Two Israeli Embassy Workers and the Messianic...
An all-around tragedy on many levels that requires serious soul-searching by all JewsBy Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin The recent shocking murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who worked for the...
View ArticleCrowned
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Shavuos may be the shortest of the Shalosh Regolim but its impact is immeasurable. For on this one day (or two, in chutz la’aretz), we remember and relive the special...
View ArticleMah Nora HaMakom—Moments Before Shavuos
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber In the grand tapestry of life, there are threads woven with such precision that they can only be described as min haShamayim. Just days before Shavuos, as the Jewish world...
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