We see that cutting oneself out of overwhelming pain is a basic human response, not a new phenomenon. However, in different eras and cultures, mental illness manifests differently based on perceptions ...

Moreover, why does the Haggadah tell a story about Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Eliezer, and Rabbi Akiva meeting to discuss Yetziat Mitzrayim all night long and having to be told that it was time to say ...

Rabbi Niehaus, who originates from Los Angeles, is the Rosh Kollel of the Zichron Aharon Yaakov night kollel in Kiryat Sefer, a rebbi in Yeshivas Tiferes Yisroel in Yerushalayim, and the author of ...

Jewish religious leaders here today received a cable from Brussels, Belgium, reporting the arrival there by plane from Rumania of the 62-year-old Skulener Rebbe, rabbi Eliezer Zisu Portogal ...

how can it be that Rabbi Akiva hit himself until he bled over the death of Rabbi Eliezer (see Sanhedrin 68a)? Tosafos offers two answers: (1) Perhaps only tearing skin by cutting is forbidden ...

Why does the Haggadah tell a story about Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva meeting to discuss "Yetziat Mitzrayim” all night long, and having to be told that it was time to say the ...

It once happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the Exodus from Egypt all that night ...