“I Don’t Know” by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine Dear Rebbe, It happened about midyear during fifth grade. It was our first week learning Talmud, and we were finding it both invigorating and challenging. The vocabulary was new, so were the concepts. It was a very sophisticated level of logic. And then it happened. We saw the more »

“I think I can’t” by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine Tzoraas was an ailment that afflicted a person because of his sins. It was G-d’s way of communicating a need for improvement. There were many different forms in which the ailment could come. Most well known is the Tzoraas that afflicted a person’s skin, in a leprosy-like more »

Mining the Blessing by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine This week’s Torah portion discusses a skin condition that afflicted a person who had a spiritual shortcoming. Tzoraas, as it is called, could affect a person who spoke Lashon Horah. Such a person, after maligning others,  might find himself afflicted. He would have to be seen by a more »