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stop calling it stam a shtus

This Website Is In Danger

Obfuscation

Lessons From Reb Eli

Eli Stefansky's reasons for Daf Yomi applied to Shlosha Perokim

Avodah Zara??

The Doors are Locked

Recent Security Review on Inyonim.com

Not a 'Muft' rather Metzius.

A derech of a tomim in dor hashvyi

Is Camp Recruitment Starting Too Early for Bochurim?

In response to the previously published article: "Honestly; Whats The Plan?!"

Soul Goals

What is your soul made of?

5 Things Worse Than TYH

Everyone spends so much spilled ink on TYH and there fishy swishy happy clappy. Get real. There's bigger issues for Klal Yisroel.

Can Halachos Be Fictional?

What if things we learn are empirically false?

Honestly; What's The Plan?!

So now, I am asking and I am beseeching and I am warning to the directorship of the Rebbe's camp, Gan Yisroel Detroit — not only should you have mercy on yourselves, but have mercy on the whole future of Lubavitch! It is in your hands! "If not us then who? And if not now then when?"

Why Is It?

Every time I open A tome

We’re Busy — But Not on Shlichus.

Tanya Catastrophe! response

Knowing Tanya “In Our Bones” Is Not Enough! you are the cocunut tree!

The Sound of Song (and Self-Delusion)

You want it to sound perfect. Professional, but not like a song — keeping those chassidish undertones. After all, this might be THE NIGGUN.

Tanya Catastrophe

You didn’t fall out of a coconut tree.

Lamentations

When the old trails ended…

Broken Letters - The Autocorrect Monster

I typed a word, 'Takeh.” Suddenly, with a murky flash, it morphed into “Taken.” I looked to the left - something zipped. To the right, then it was gone. I doubled down

Sight or Survival?

They say the cork will mold to your feet. But does the shoe change, or do you?

A is for Avodah zarah

But in my opinion theres a problem - a big problem -  which hasn't really been addressed. Today I would like to address that problem.

What’s With the Word Games

Apparently, Hashem misunderstands us sometimes.

Know Your Days!

Yud-Alef Cheshvan, now barely a blip on the radar, shockingly overlooked.

Ramming Cars

770. Cars. Yud Shevat.

Name Origins

Dibs. Bullshoves. When were these names originated, and by who?

The Sweetest Gift a Parent Can Give

Throughout my time in Mesivta, Zal, and Shlichus, I heard the same thing from dozens of bochurim, chavrusas, friends, and others: "I don't know why my parents didn't speak to me in Yiddish." Some have even added, "They don't either know why. They regret it too..."

Bein Hazmanim is coming, Beware!

An alarming thought.

Stop Raising ‘Androgynous’ Bochurim

Not long ago, a yeshiva’s name meant something. Where a bochur learned shaped his outlook, his positions, and signaled the values he held. The question, “Which yeshiva did he go to?” once told you a great deal. Today, it often tells you very little at all.

Gan Yisroel? Or Gan Chayos?

Why should I spend my summer in Gan Yisroel , when I can have a much stronger effect in ‘C-Kids’?

The return of the Blogspots

How articles and Blogspots turned from being Geshmake places for people to talk/Farbreng to just AI slop

"Wait, am I the only one learning this maamer"?

So if they print a different one, you'll learn something else?!

In Response to “שקט מוחלט!”

Dibs article misses the point. Shluchim are running schools, teaching Torah, helping every Jew, raising large families, and paying the bills — that is the Rebbe’s response to tragedy, not long Hebrew essays about ‘silence.'

שקט מוחלט?!

What’s wrong with instant coffee?!

״ניט ווי די חסידישע בעלי בתים טרינקען קאווע אדער ציקאריע שבת אינדערפריה און קוקען אריין אין תורה אור אדער לקוטי תורה…״ -ספה״ש קייץ ה׳תש״ב ע׳ 145

Lost Between Dates

What Are We Teaching Our Bochurim?

"I Don't Need Your Bekitche." Or Do I?

There is a popular idea making the rounds lately, sometimes dressed up in song and sometimes in conversation, that the עיקר is the person under the bekitshe.

Many Happy Days Are Coming (?)

Hour with their rebbe

What Do You Think About When Putting On Tefillin?

Our goal is to gather data about the average person on the average day.

Airplane mode: ON. Your device or you?

Its either You or your Phone. it cannot be both. but can't you be in the moment and stop playing Airplane mode? Where are you when the Airplane mode is ON? and are you here when its OFF?

Non-Prophet Organization

Contrary to popular belief, there is something beyond the Five Books.

Your "Kosher" Phone is Still an Addiction

If your "Kosher Phone" is taking you away from your learning, your davening, and your family—it’s not Kosher. It’s treif. Put it away.

Taking the "Simcha" out of a Simcha

I am writing this from a wedding. I will not say whose. But I will say this. The centerpiece on my table costs more than a car, and that is already a problem.

When “Standards” Are Lower Than a Reform Mechitza

Once upon a time, you had to know how to learn to teach, and you had to be a mentch to be in charge. Today, showing up is enough, and the campers are left dealing with the consequences.

Is it my Fault That People are Ignorant?

Why Is the Point System Punishing Us for the Truth?

Discourse, Not Dissection

Content lives or dies by what it says, not by whether it passes a grammatical purity test. When corrections become the the center of attention, conversation collapses into nitpicking. Much to the consernation of too many.

The World Stood Still, Didn’t Make a Sound

An excerpt from Tanya Hasholeim

The Great Letdown

What has become of Inyonim.com

A dream that never came true

ever since I was a youngster I had a dream, but that dream can never become true. Not without your help

Bachurim. Shluchim. Shlichus.

How are bachurim ment to be treated

The Mysterious Ayin

The musical evolution from "Father Don't Cry" to "Fishy Swishy Yum Yum"

Today, Jewish music is increasingly shaped by speed and volume instead of craft. The goal is no longer to create something lasting. The goal is to release something quickly that will get attention online.

You Can’t Keep Moving the Goalposts (Part 2)

What Do We Actually Want From Our Shluchim?

“Spiritual, Sincere, and Somehow Radioactive”

We all know they one guy... or two. You can't help it. They are hurting themselves and those around them. The solution is simple. Is there a holiness to this stench?

70 Years Strong?

Was this the vision?

The Sign of Life

What is the strongest proof that the Chossid is alive? That (when) his Rebbe lives within him.

Clean Freak Goes to Mesivta Farbrengen

The floor the next day is one of the ways to determine the age of the participants farbrenging the night before...

What’s Stopping You From Shining Your Light?

Prepared in honor of the 22nd yahrtzeit of my mother, Mrs. Mushka Pearson, on Shabbos Parshas Vayechi–Chazak, the 14th of Teves.

The Forgotten Princess

Shabbos is not a list of do's and don't's, it's an experience of holiness and divine intimacy.

The Shukul Arcade

Darkness. Grease. Powdered sugar everywhere.

Why Does No One Reed My Stuff?

A frustrated rider (me) discovers why no one reeds his riding. And its not what you think it is because.

One Man, Many Futures (Part 1)

A system where being liked becomes a qualification

Looking Again at a Familiar Story

We grow up, but some things tend to get left behind

Re: The Viral Email Circulating the Frum World

Morgen in der Fruh

Is he twisted, and so he twists? Or was he educated twistedly? Hopefully, he'll realize—as soon as tomorrow morning.

Basi Legani 57??

Stop hitting snooze on the cycle: Are you actually "with the program" this Yud Shevat?

Snarky Scribblers

Authenticity is my crime; misunderstanding, their delight. Still, I write, faithfully, unyielding.

Thoughts, Apparently

Another Important Opinion

The Deep Fry Effect

What a couple days of Chanukah can do to a kid

Late Night Musings

The inner itch to write vs. the creeping suspicion that writing here is pointless—too quiet, too honest, too "plain" to matter in this forum.

Clean Freak at a Class Farbrengen

I love farbrenging with my friends, but sometimes it's a bit too much

The Ending I Didn’t Choose

“Close the books!” echoed through the Zal. “Shlichus has begun!”

The Message Is Global. The Messenger Isn’t.

A case study in how delivery can quietly undermine even the most powerful ideas

The $18 Insult

We all know the cycle: staff work 20-hour days and feel betrayed by a small tip. But who is really to blame?

Tanya: By Heart or By Habit?!

When Shabbos feels heavy and Tanya feels distant, something isn’t lining up.

An Anxious Author

An attempt, a retreat, and a reluctant surrender to the written word.

“Shlichus starts at home”

When both choices feel right and the question isn’t where to go but where you’re meant to be

Derher Club

Before this wonderful platform was created I once wrote a short piece on a long flight. Comments appreciated.

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round...

The one-hour journey that has become a small world of its own—part refuge, part comedy show, part study hall. Because no two bus rides are ever the same.

I Do Rambam Every Day, And I’m Not Exactly Sure How

There was no induction ceremony. No membership card. One day I realized that my only physical exertion while learning Rambam was turning the pages.

What Are Our Children Watching?

Exiled in Kislev

There are only three days left. Three days until the room erupts and I am the only silent one in it. Three days until their joy becomes my loneliness. Three days until the holiday they have been racing toward crashes into the month I’ve been limping through.

Inyonim.com Under Fire: Is the Founder Running the Site Solo Under Multiple Accounts?

The implications are serious. If a single individual controls several of these accounts, they effectively have the power to decide which articles see the light of day—and which ones never make it past moderation. This is a tool for silencing criticism.

Israeli Politics is Holy. Or is it?

Welcome to Inyonim.com

It used to be theoretical. Achshav Zeh Inyan.

The Chabad.org Time Machine

On mivtzoim, we ask them to visit Chabad.org. But as time progresses, so does design. And Chabad.org is going backwards.

Why Detroit is slowly becoming Westchester-Rooted