SAY SOMETHING NICE (VIDEO)
In Parshat Shemini, why does the Torah feel the need to find something positive to say about animals that aren’t kosher? The Midrash answers this question, and Rabbi Dunner adds a stunning story from the revered Mirrer mashgiach, Rav Chatzkel Levenstein z”l, which beautifully illustrates the point.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) In a letter to James Madison dated September 20, 1785, written from Paris, Thomas Jefferson expressed his fascination with the urban aesthetics of the... Read More