Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:
- Aspaqlaria
- Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhoffer
- Rabbi Yaakov Feldman‘s classes:
- Modern Uberdox by Neil Harris
Recent posts from these blogs:
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Intimate Knowledge of G‑d
Compassion Toward People
Splendor in Mind and Heart
Avodah
Wrt discussion about role of belief in determining Orthodoxy, I know of many classics tshuvot discussing status of mechallel shabbat befarhsia.. There are not that many early tshuvot discussing belief [...]
On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 05:38:38AM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > This problem appears in many other situations as well. To me, the above is > very [...]
On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 06:15:20AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > [I]f the reason the stripes on a tallit is to be a memory/allusion to > tcheilet... [...]
A more elemental question, what is a tallis? On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 at 18:57, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > f the reason the stripes on a tallit is [...]
f the reason the stripes on a tallit is to be a memory/allusion to tcheilet, then why would one who If the reason the stripes on a tallit is to [...]
Notes to a magid shiur -Thoughts? I certainly agree with you that the advice that it?s time to be selfish is pretty poor advice, especially in times where there seems [...]
From what I've heard, it's also coming to security systems and more home tech at CES. It's a technology that combines low-cost implementation, privacy benefits and user-friendliness, which means this [...]
On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 06:09:20AM +0000, Toby Katz via Avodah wrote: > In?Avodah Digest, Vol 43, Issue 72?dated 12/2/2025? >?From: "Jay F. Shachter" >> Normal people don't care [...]
Blogs
- YGB - יג"ב
- Aspaqlaria
- Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 17:Donors, Draft and Demarcation Dialoguehttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/112837you can watch the raw video for this episode at:https://youtu.be/KWAuAHPpJJk [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhYlGVtIOa8KYeCVztC0GWRtvc2s2jR3The full (750 recordings) playlist/podcast of audio shiurim from the 1997-2001 cycle of the Daf Yomi Yerushalmi as recorded live at the HTC Frumi Noble Night Kollel in Chicago, converted [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
I was out of town and did not participate in this episode of the podcast. [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Over Rav Kook zt"l's chair at Beit HaRav:"I write not because I have the strength to write, but because I no longer have the strength to remain silent." [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa-Season 12-Episode 15- From Oppression, Cold, and Darkness ,the Light of Creativity Emerges | Yeshiva of Newark PodcastPlay EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 15:From Oppression, Cold [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Ben Yeshiva: Pathway of Aliyah - Jewish ActionBen Yeshiva: Pathway of AliyahReviewed by Rabbi Yosef Gavriel BechhoferBy Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky Eshel Publications 2024 388 pages Reviewed by Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer Baruch Hashem, the yeshiva population has grown immensely, and the [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Traveling on Chanukah when you will completely miss lighting,and no one will light for you that night.A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
I was out of town and did not participate in this episode of the podcast.Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 14:Submitting to Authority and Defying the Rule of [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A short shiur on the Rambam on Chanukah given at the Young Israel of Northridge, CA.17 Kislev 5785. December 7, 2025. We come to explain the language used by the [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
I was out of town and did not participate in this episode of the podcast.Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 13:Derech Eretz, Derech Eretz, Wherefore Art Thou?https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/111294 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 12:Three Courses and Dessert:Remembering Rabbi Jay MarcusSettler ViolencePonevezh DecisionRabbi Boruch Chait's Anthemhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/111065 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A shiur on Emunah and the Holocaust to the YBH 8th grade girls in the context of the Names Not Numbers program, November 2025. [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
- Micha Berger
Or: Modim, part II In part I, we looked specifically at the word “Modim“, and how R Hutner shows it means here both “thanks” and “admission”. That the berakhah isn’t [...]
- Micha Berger
The next berakhah of Shemoneh Esrei, the center of the closing berakhos about gratitude is Modim. In this post we will look at the meaning of the opening word, “Modim“, [...]
- Micha Berger
Now that we completed the 13 berakhos Chazal labeled requests, we get to Retzeih, the first of the three berakhos of thanksgiving. For reasons I don’t know, it reads like [...]
- Micha Berger
Shema Qoleinu usually ends either“כִּי אַתָּה שׁוֹמֵֽעַ תְּפִלַּת עַמְּ֒ךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּרַחֲמִים – because You Listen to the prayers of Your nation Israel with Compassion” (Ashkenaz),“כִּי אַתָּה שׁוֹמֵעַ תְּפִלַּת כָּל־פֶּה – [...]
- Micha Berger
Before that Chanukah detour, I promised to discuss the berakhah of ShehaKol further. To review what we said so far: In this berakhah we conclude “nihyeh bidevaro – is existing through His [...]
- Micha Berger
This week’s parshah, VaYeishev, this second Tefillah Meanings post for the week as well. Today’s topic: The closing pasuq of Mizmor shir leYom haShabbos. Many pesuqim in Tehillim say nearly [...]
- Micha Berger
We say in Ashrei (Tehillim 145:13): ,מַֽלְכוּתְךָ֗ מַלְכ֥וּת כׇּל־עֹלָמִ֑יםוּ֝מֶֽמְשַׁלְתְּךָ֗ בְּכׇל־דּ֥וֹר וָדֹֽר׃ Your kingdom is a kingdom over all the worlds,and Your rule is throughout each and every generation. Tefillah Meaning [...]
- Micha Berger
ShehaKol is said so often, we kind of take it for granted. But for a number of years now, ShehaKol on my morning cup of coffee has been one of [...]
- Micha Berger
We request three steps to the dawn of the Messianic Age in Shemoneh Esrei: תְּקַע בְּשׁוֹפָר גָּדוֹל לְחֵרוּתֵֽנוּ – “Sound the great shofar for our freedom” about our return from [...]
- Micha Berger
The next berakhah I found a relationship to requires skipping ahead to “VelaMalshinim… — And for the informers, let there be no hope”. I think we need a little historical [...]
- Micha Berger
Tzitzum (literally: contraction) is a fundamental idea in the Ari’s Qabbalah. It describes the Act of Creation as Hashem making “room” for us and everything created “constricting” Himself from conceptual [...]
- Micha Berger
I relate to the second set of requests as being for the nation’s physical well-being as individuals. This follows the prerequisite three requests, for our spiritual well-being. First we need [...]
- Micha Berger
Yet another detour from Shemoneh Esrei, this time because the thought is from Rashi on this week’s parashah. This thought from Anne Frank Hy”d is very inspiring. However, Rashi on [...]
- Micha Berger
I am taking what I expect to be a one post break from Shemoneh Esrei because I saw something related to kavvanah in tomorrow’s Arukh haShulchan Yomi. In Orach Chaim [...]
- Micha Berger
The next berakhah in Shemoneh Esrei begins, “סְלַח לָנוּ אָבִינוּ כִּי חָטָאנוּ מְחַל לָנוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ כִּי פָשָׁעְנוּ – Selach us our Father because we erred, Mechal us our King because [...]
- Micha Berger
Usually, we think of qiddush hasheim and chillul hasheim in terms of what an action does to Hashem’s reputation. Does an action motivate people to follow Hashem, or dissuade them [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
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Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
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Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
- Neil Harris
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
- Neil Harris
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
- Neil Harris
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
- Neil Harris
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
- Neil Harris
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
- Neil Harris
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
- Neil Harris
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
- Neil Harris
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
- Neil Harris
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
- Neil Harris
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]