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by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper In the opening essay of his 2026 collection “So Ordered”, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito critiques an approach he calls “insecure originalism”.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Like op-eds or Substack posts, many successful divrei Torah reinforce what we already strongly believe.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Dear Rabbi Klapper, The US Defense Department recently announced plans to livestream the execution-by-firing-squad of Major Nidal Hasan.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Kayin kills Hevel after speaking to him, while they are in a field, after G-d has rejected Kayin’s sacrifice and explained why.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper The English language has productive and unproductive suffixes.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper The final sentence of the haftorah for Shabbat Shuvah reads: “For the ways of Hashem are straight, and the righteous will walk in them, but posh’im will lose their way (yikashlu) in them”.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper In a powerful pre-Selichot address at Yeshiva Har Etzion this year, Rav Moshe Lichtenstein distinguished two forms of shame-at-having-sinned.

From Kiddush Times International, Rosh haShanah edition, 29 Elul 5786 #4 in the series A Torah Political Theory for the 21st Century

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Parshat Nitzavim appears to take place, as its name suggests, with the entire Jewish people standing before Mosheh.

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Devarim 26:3 reads: ובאת אל הכהן אשר יהיה בימים ההם you will come to the priest who will be in those days Leaving aside the possibility of time-travel, why does the Torah bother instructing us to bring bikkurim (first fruits of the…