From: Marsha Dear Rabbi, My husband and I (we were recently married) will be traveling during the summer break and we will be staying with family and friends for various lengths of times. Does the Torah offer any advice that we should keep in mind on how to be good guests? Dear Marsha and Hubby,[…]
From: Marnie Dear Rabbi, Some years ago I was in a flat-mate situation with some people I did not know beforehand, so I did not know them and they didn’t know me. They were renting the apartment and subletting a room to me so they had no longstanding connection to the flat, and they were[…]
From: Shelly Dear Rabbi, I personally find your column to be very well-written, sensitive and insightful. It is quite uplifting for me, even though I am not the questioner. I imagine that those who you’re advising appreciate your responses even more. My question is, of course you’re helping a lot of people, but do you[…]
From: Anthony Dear Rabbi, I want you to know that I really enjoy your column and have come to appreciate it even more of late. I’ll tell you why. I am currently recovering from a serious fall and have been lying on my back in bed for six weeks. I have had a lot of[…]
From: Marc Dear Rabbi, My family and I have just returned from a visit to Israel in honor of my son’s bar mitzva and I wanted to share with you an interesting aspect of our trip, and to hear your take on it. It seems that wherever we went, average, non-religious Israelis knew a lot[…]
From: Zach Dear Rabbi, Would you please clarify something for me about tefillin? Are there different pairs of tefillin? The reason I’m asking is that I see people take off tefillin in the middle of shacharit and then put on another pair. Or sometimes they put on another pair after shacharit. Sometimes I actually see[…]
From: Anonymous Dear Rabbi, I have a sensitive question that I’m embarrassed to ask rabbis I know, so I thought to ask through this medium. I hope that’s OK. The question is like this: Thank G‑d I am expecting, and it looks like it will be a boy. Now my grandfather, unfortunately, is very ill[…]
From: Hernando Dear Rabbi, I have come to love the Torah so much and want to keep all the mitzvot that I can, but I feel that I need to go to a yeshiva with rabbis and people like myself in order to be totally immersed in the Torah and the religious life. The problem[…]
From: Fahim (Moshe) in Iran Dear Rabbi, Why do the people who are bad and do only a few mitzvot live well and without problems, but those who are good and do many mitzvot live bad and with difficulties and problems in their lives? Dear Fahim (Moshe), You are in good company when you ask[…]
From: Anonymous Dear Rabbi, I have been religious for some time now. In fact, I have been shidduch dating for what feels like too long. I’m wondering if my Hebrew name has anything to do with the delay. You see, growing up, in Sunday school, I used a particular Hebrew name, and that was the[…]