Avot is all about tradition, and as Dr. Weissman notes in his introduction, Rabbi Schachter brings with him to every shiur a rich and weighty mesorah.
Finding material and appropriate examples each week has not always been simple, and I was thus very pleased to discover the “Masters of the Word” series by Rabbi Yonatan Kolatch [. . .]
The rabbi did not know any of the men and women of Be’eri for whom he undertook to recite Kaddish until September of 2024. Strangers, all. . . . [Except that] now they are connected by the words in Aramaic he recites three times a day.
Once, over Shabbat lunch at the lovely little restaurant attached to Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, I was told a joke told by Augustus Gomez De Mesquita—(“but you must call me ‘Gus’”)—the ninety-year-old scion of the illustrious family of cantors at that venerable institution, apropos his long and lofty-sounding name. It seems that the concierge […]