What is the message of Musaf? A wonderful new sefer by Rabbi Elchanan Adler, shlita, titled The Musaf Prayer – Background and Commentary, provides the answer. The Tefillas Musaf of Shabbos is familiar ...

Last week, Rav Herschel Schachter published a teshuva, a responsum, essentially stating that if there is a contradiction between “din” and “minhag,” between a strict halacha and a custom, that the ...

Parshat Nitzavim is always the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana and the hint to this is in the first pasuk “Atem Nitzavim Hayom.” The Zohar HaKadosh says that when it says “Hayom” in the pesukim, it is ...

Grapevine: Twin Jaffe brothers lead musaf at the Great Synagogue In the absence of cantor Chaim Adler, Jaffe led the Musaf prayers, while his twin brother Zalli, who has an impressive singing voice, ...