Yeshivas Ye'ush MiDa'as

"Say not: 'How was it that the former days were better than these?' for it is not out of wisdom that you inquire about this." [Koheles 7:10]

Friday, August 8, 2025

Va’eschanan: Peor-gressivism

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“You saw with your own eyes what G-d did in the matter of Baal-peor, that your G-d wiped out from among you every person who followed Baal-p...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Matos: The Horseshoe Within

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There has been much attention recently paid to “horseshoe” phenomenon as it pertains to antisemitism, as the point where the far-right and f...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Easy stock response to NK supporters of Hamas

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NK Facebook comment: "Abraham was not from the land of Israel" Response: Avraham was mizar'o shel Shem, and also learned in hi...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Post-Purim Post-Part(y)m

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Note/Disclaimer:  for some reason, this piece, which was published in 2010, ended gp getting bounced all the way to 2024.  Suffice it to say...

Tazria-Metzora: Houses

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(Originally published in 2010.  Not sure how it ended up here.) This series of double parshiyot that deal with what might be considered th...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Beshalach: Pharaoh vs Amalek--Two Party System?

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A prominent USA rabbi was known to have said that America might not be our enemy, but they are not necessarily our friend. The encomia for P...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Yayechi: When Mega Is Malign

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Reading a few different articles on the parsha this past week, a piece about Yaakov Avinu on his deathbed by Rabbi Ari Kahn stood out: what...
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