Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Sukkahs are for sleeping
September 28, 2007
We were intent on doing what our Ashkenazi forebearers, who lived in inhospitably cold climates, could not do. We were intent on doing Sukkot the way the Talmud prescribes, meaning 24/7, including spending nights there.
Kabbalist Theory of Everything
December 16, 2004
Quietly studying a page of the Talmud on a crowded plane, the great Orthodox teacher and thinker Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik was interrupted by a passenger in the next seat.
Lenin, Meet Noah
October 14, 2004
Fall was just beginning to turn the Moscow air crispy when the lot of us — 10 high school seniors and three faculty members of Yeshiva University Los Angeles Girls\’ School — trudged down the stairs of our Intourist Hotel in the late \’80s, and began our walk of several miles, not to the better-known Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue or to the Moscow Choral Synagogue, but to another shul in the city\’s north.
The Presence of Greatness
July 25, 2002
Inspirational speeches are sometimes improved by leaving out the words.
Conservation and Appreciation
May 2, 2002
I learned of the Jewish slant on conservation on my first flight to Israel in my late teens.
Strengthen Bonds, Don’t Stretch Them
February 28, 2002
The decision to register converts of all denominations as Jews will not only be regretted by the Orthodox in the short run, but by Conservative and Reform Jews as well. And for Israel it may prove disastrous.
One People
February 21, 2002
Beset by troubles, we have much to be thankful for, least of which is our miraculous survival, and our ties to each other.
Lenin, Meet Noah
October 18, 2001
Fall was just beginning to turn the Moscow air crispy when the lot of us — 10 high school seniors and three faculty members of YULA Girls\’ School — trudged down the stairs of our Intourist Hotel in the late \’80s, and began our walk of several miles, not to the better-known Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue or to the Moscow Choral Synagogue, but to another shul in the city\’s nort
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