David Bashevkin

When I was studying in yeshiva, there was a curious fellow named Aryeh who was always researching the most bizarre questions. When…

Shulem Deen’s book, All Who Go Do Not Return, retells the moving story of his Hasidic upbringing and why he chose to leave…

I grew up in a religious home. All my friends were religious. All my teachers were religious. But even as a child,…

In a world increasingly in flux, as the landscape of religious life constantly changes, so does the landscape of those that choose…

Perhaps more than a collection of laws, each Talmud page is a gathering of Jewish history. On any given page of Talmud,…

Explaining any element of Jewish law to someone else can be difficult. I’m not sure what’s the most difficult practice to translate…

My love of Talmud did not begin with Talmud—it began with Hasidut. Specifically, the thought of Rav Tzadok of Lublin (1823-1900). I’ve…

There is circularity that underlies nearly all of rabbinic law. Open up the first page of Talmud and it already assumes that…