A Jew With Questions

Mishpacha magazine had a story a while ago about a Rabbi Meister who died from cancer. They printed the following quote from him:   I have n...

 In Parshas וירא Avraham gives an impassioned defense of Sdom which is used by many liberal Jews to promote Judaism as being in favor of soc...

 The Torah has a very different view of rape then we do today. The Torah sees rape as injuring the father by deflowering his daughter and de...

  Daf Yomi this week (כתובות ע״ה) had a fascinating Gemara about women and marriage. בְּקָרִיבֵיהּ! האִיהִי בְּכׇל דְּהוּ נִיחָא לַהּ, כִּדְ...

 Daf Yomi just learned the following Gemara (כתובות ע"ה) תָּנֵי רַבִּי נָתָן בִּירָאָה: בֵּין דַּדֵּי אִשָּׁה טֶפַח. סָבַר רַב אַחָא בּ...

When I saw this it made me very angry. This person is not asking for tzedaka because some tragedy happened to him. Rather, he is asking for ...

 The charedi hashkafa says absolutely. However there is a fascinating Gemara in Chagiga which clearly contradicts this position תָּנוּ רַבָּ...