By Rabbi Yitzchak Shurin In general, we find that the rabbis discouraged long-windedness, as it says in Pirkei Avot (1:17): “Vechol hamarbeh dvarim meivi chet – One who speaks excessively brings on sin.” They also applied this to learning: “A teacher should teach his student in the shortest fashion” (Pesachim
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“You know if someone is a healthy Baal Teshuva if they maintain a warm relationship with their parents after they have become frum”. – Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky Dear Jew in the City, I did not grow up Orthodox, but became religious because of Jew in the City seeing how special the frum
You don’t have to be a rav to be machmir, stringent, but you have to be a rav to be meikil, lenient. – Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik It all started five thousand, seven hundred and sixty-eight years ago. Adam and Eve were commanded not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Eve,