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Hi, This is more an emotional question I'm hoping you can provide insight on. I'm seeing a therapist but I wanted to get a Jewish perspective on it. My husband and I have unexplained infertility. We've had many tests and procedures done, but we have been unable to have any children. B'H we are both healthy and are able to live life. But I'm not understanding why Hashem would put this pain my heart while trying to face the fact we may not become parents. Thank you for your time. B'H

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Dear Rabbi, Is there a mitzvah to believe in God? Thanks

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Shalom laRav. This is a question about a recent occurrence in my community and those surrounding it. As you know, when the Torah is brought out of the Hekhal, we sing “Romemu,” a song composed of portions of Tehillim. The Sfardi Minhag is for the congregation to sing the entire text out loud and together while the Torah is being brought to the table. Lately, however, many Sfardi synagogues, at least in New York, have been shortening this prayer by skipping most of the central verses. In my sunagogue, it began with a few people skipping the middle, confusing everyone else. By the end of the week, everyone was singing the shortened version like them, but nobody knew why. One of the Rabbis in my community attempted to convince everyone to go back to our original Minhag, but was only successful for a few days. I’d initially thought this was just a problem in my community, but I’d heard from friends that it was happening to them as well. Some even said they’d never heard the full song before, just the shortened version. I did some research. Turns out, the shortened version is the Moroccan Minhag. However, none of us are Moroccan, and there aren’t very many Moroccans in our communities. (The people in my synagogue who started this are also not Moroccan). However, Moroccans say most of the central verses while the Torah is being lifted, while my community says different Pesukim (as is our Minhag). Therefore, I am suspicious that there is some other reason, unrelated to Moroccan Minhagim. My question is as follows: How did this trend begin, and what (if anything) should I do to fix it?

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Good morning, I have a question concerning Genesis 2:23 "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Can you please tell me if there is any hint, any clue in this text in the Hebrew as to HOW WILL OTHER PEOPLE KNOW that the woman was taken out of man? Could you please recommend any teaching, lectures on this subject and send me a few links or names I could find online? I do appreciate your help. every blessing to you

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As Jews, we take for granted we are monotheists. But are there other things we do that violate the biblical prohibition against idolatry without us realizing? For example, is an obsession or an obsessive interest in something or someone considered idolatry? That being we enjoy something or someone so much that the subject occupies our thoughts most of the time to the point that we can’t get it out of our heads, and we are thinking about it throughout the day, even at times when we are supposed to be concentrating on something else.