by Yitzi Weiner | Jun 6, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
A BLESSING ON A GUN By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s Torah portion discusses the mitzvah of the Sotah. Part of the procedure of the Sotah was to erase a scroll with the name of Hashem written on it. Our Sages teach that creating peace and reconciliation between a...
by Yitzi Weiner | May 29, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
THE EXPENSIVE GEMARAS By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s Torah portion Bamidbar, begins the discussion of the travels of our forefathers in the desert. Our sages teach that the Torah was given in the midbar, the desert, because a person has to make himself like a...
by Yitzi Weiner | May 21, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
THE ANGRY DENTIST By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s parsha discusses the mitzva of Ona’as Mamon, not to overcharge someone in business matters. This leads us to the following interesting true story: There was once a man named David. David woke up one morning with a...
by Yitzi Weiner | May 1, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
THE IRRESPONSIBLE HUSBAND By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s Torah portion discusses the mitzva of tzaras. Tzaras was a painful spiritual disease that erupted as a result of violating sins such as Lashon Hara. Lashon Hara, evil gossip means saying things that are...
by Yitzi Weiner | Apr 21, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
The Pork Restaurant Security Guard By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s parsha discusses the mitzva not to eat non-kosher food, such as pig. This bring us to the following true dilemma. (Names were changed) Tomer was a religious Jew living in Israel. He held a job as...
by rabbiweiner | Apr 16, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
THE WHISKEY COLLECTION A Moral Dilemma for the Shabbos Table By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner We know that there is a mitzva to get rid of all of one’s chametz on Pesach. One way that we get rid of our chametz is by selling it to a non Jew. This brings us to the following true...
