


Twenty-eight years ago, I arrived in Baltimore with my family to assume the role of Principal of the High School at Talmudical Academy of Baltimore.

Baltimore, MD – Aug. 18, 2026 – Baltimore is blessed with an extraordinary wealth of mosdos of Torah and chesed. Yet among the community’s many well-known

But if a man, שונא — hates his fellow, lies in wait for him and rises up against him, ומכה נפש — and strikes him






In the Torah’s first foray in presenting the details of its intricate system of law, in this case the gamut of civil law, it uses