Category: Yitro
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Yitro 5784: “As One Person with One Heart”
If you ever attended a Pesach Seder at our home you would have heard my sister in law, a”h, ask how it is that we sing Dayeinu and declare that it would have been enough for…
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Yitro 5782: “A Stranger in a Strange Land”
When I was a freshman in college I followed up on a referral, made a few phone calls, and left campus to spend Shabbat at the home of the Bostoner Rebbe. The rebbe, in those years…
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Yitro 5779: “Law and Narrative”
I asked you earlier to count during the asseret ha-dibrot, the so-called Ten Commandments, and to pay attention to how many commandments there are in the ten commandments. Does anyone have an answer? The answer is subject…
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Yitro 5776: “Big Questions or Hard Questions: On the Purposes of Jewish Leadership”
A father once sat down with the young man his daughter was planning to marry. They had not yet met and the father wished to learn more about the man who would become his son-in-law. “You…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 