Category: Shoftim
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Shoftim 5783: “Community Standards”
About eighteen months ago a small boutique bakery opened steps away from the shul where I worked at the time. I thought it would be a perfect win-win opportunity if the bakery would agree to kosher…
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Shoftim 5777: “The Many Wives of Henry the VIII and the Many Lives of Biblical Verses”
King Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon but wished he were married to Anne Bolyn. King Henry, at the time, was Catholic and there was no way to arrange a divorce. Instead, Henry argued that…
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Shoftim 5775: “Do Not Deviate to the Right or to the Left”
A friend of mine was once confronted with a religious dilemma. He was spending a year studying in a yeshiva in Israel and shortly after his arrival he had to decide whether to observe two-days of…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 