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Over 165 In-Depth Maamarim Addressing the Questions You’ve Always Had, but Didn’t Ask

“One of the greatest difficulties facing a person who wants to properly learn Chumash,” HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Kaminetsky, zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Vodaas, said in a seminal drasha at one of the first Torah Umesorah conventions in the 1940’s, “is overcoming the childish perceptions of the stories and halachos in the Torah that they were taught in grade school.”

Much of the news these days is dominated by war, most notably Israel vs. Hamas, Israel vs. Hezbollah, and Ukraine vs. Russia. But there are many other conflicts. According to one report, over 65 global conflicts are now underway, including eight direct battles between nations, with 13 of them considered major wars. These are being fought by different armies in very different regions in order to achieve different objectives. But they have one common denominator: Human combatants are being phased out and steadily replaced by robots and other types of automation. And this trend is expected not only to continue but to accelerate.

New York

 ICE officers attempting to arrest a man in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City opened fire after he refused orders to exit his vehicle, rammed two government vehicles, and then accelerated toward other officers.

There are countless questions to explore in Parshas Bereishis, particularly in the Torah’s account of the creation of humanity. The Torah first tells us:

“Va’yivra Elokim es ha’adam b’tzalmo, b’tzelem Elokim bara oso, zachar u’nekeivah bara osam.”

Recap: The children are captured, but Miri thinks fast and offers her watch, which Mr. Norman had given her, as a bribe to let them go. One of the men takes the bribe. A scuffle results among them over the watch. They are stopped by some other men who drag them off to the dungeon. The watch is left on the ground.

New York

 A 22-year-old Queens man has been indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly damaging property outside Bagels & Co. on Union Turnpike in May. Dawood Faisal, of Fresh Meadows, was arraigned on two counts of third-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime.