However, leading rabbinic authorities, from the Vilna Gaon to Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, have emphasized that the mitzvah is as binding today as ever. In fact, the Gemara (Ketubot 110b ...
Rav David Avraham Spector points out, based on the teachings of the Vilna Gaon that the same concept is true for settling the Land of Israel. In Tehillim 76:3 we read: His Sukka is in Shalem ...
He has published two Hebrew volumes on the Vilna Gaon’ s understanding of the laws of mikveh. Rabbi Goldberg has written an extensive amount of book reviews, published in the Intermountain Jewish News ...
Residents up in arms as civic body declares Christian Gaon a ‘slum’, and its denizens as ‘slum-dwellers’, telling them to participate in a biometric survey Christian Gaon in Kurla West on ...
It’s common in liberal Jewish circles to agonize over the ninth chapter of Megillat Esther, which describes the slaughter ...