The New Mourner III

The Bicycle Comparison

Rabbi Kanefsky links scooters to bicycles, and brings one view that "your mode of transportation on Shabbat should not be the same as your transportation during the week."

A Thousand Blessings

Rabbi Kanefsky explores curiously redundant language at the start of Parshat Devarim and explains how it may be a model for anyone giving someone a blessing.

Scooters On Shabbat

Rabbi Kanefsky begins a discussion about the prohibition or permissibility of scooters on Shabbat.

Keep Moving!

Rabbi Stein examines the phrase "Rav lachem"  --  Enough for you! -- at the start of Parshat Devarim, and the message of action it contains.

Speaking In Sign Language

Concluding his series on prayer when vocalization is not possible, Rabbi Kanefsky quotes a contemporary authority who equates sign language with speech, making it an acceptable form of tefillah for a deaf person.