In the late nineties, television took a great leap forward. This story could be told in many ways: by focussing on the […]
Jewish law teaches that we should always bring salt to our table and dip bread in salt before eating it. The general […]
The need for salt on sacrifices can be taken as a metaphorical lesson regarding our prayers, which are like sacrifices before God. […]
Angels can’t be part of the moral universe. Only humans can be. If we go in the direction of the Eitz Yosef, […]
It is the wraparound presence, not the specific evils, of the machine that oppresses us. Simply reducing the machine’s presence will go […]
When I used to hear parents complain that they didn’t have even a few minutes to scan the newspaper, let alone finish […]
Brainstorming was an immediate hit and Osborn became an influential business guru, writing such best-sellers as “Wake Up Your Mind” and “The […]
A social network is crucially different from a social circle, since the function of a social circle is to curb our appetites […]
In a statement repeated several times in Shas, Rava emphasizes the importance of an individual’s input in Torah study, that is, the […]
When done poorly, the cliffhanger is all about shoddy craftsmanship, the creepy manipulation by a storyteller who has run out of tricks. […]