Rabbi Karlinsky: “Can Chumros Be Bad For Your Neshamah?”
Can Chumros Be Bad For Your Neshamah? Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky Originally published on www.cross-currents.com In his recent post on the “disappearing woman”, Rabbi Adlerstein highlighted two important points in the discussion that have ramifications well beyond the specific topic of eliminating pictures of the female half of our community from most charedi publications. I […]
Character Development
Middot – character traits – are at the core of our moral and religious lives. As the Vilna Gaon writes, “For it is your life: For a person is alive only in order to break a [negative] character trait that he has not broken until now. Therefore one should always strengthen one’s self; for if […]