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“I was shocked to hear anyone in 2021 defend smoking, drinking, and vaping.”

Abie, the brilliantly creative musical composer who became a mechanech in disguise, marvels at how Reb Shaya is still at it 40 years later, helping young Jews find their own individual melodies of meaning in Yiddishkeit.

To really help a mourner, don’t distract him from his pain

“She and her friends would wish each other, ‘May the mitzvah of kibbud av v’eim be an easy one for you'”

Is the more likely explanation based on the “R” next to his name and the “D” next to Adams’s?

“There are never enough children, no matter the family size, when a parent deteriorates”