What is this blog thing you keep hearing about? Posts Along The Way is an adaptation of the Torah teachings on the popular Hirhurim-Musings blog. In this book, learn about the halachah and hashkafah of shuls in the quick and enlightening blog format. Take a guided tour of the sources and see how they are relevant to the Judaism you live and experience.

Topics include how prayer works, talking in shuls, who can be a rabbi - a ba'al teshuvah? a convert? a woman?, shuls and megachurches, women's prayer groups, mechitzah and much more.

Hirhurim-Musings is an award-winning blog that has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, The Jewish Press and other media outlets.

Praise for the Blog

“Hirhurim provides a valuable service to the Orthodox community, examining issues large and small, in Halacha and Hashkafa, as well as many of the social concerns affecting the Jewish world. Torah sources from across the spectrum are used and quoted with respect, facilitating needed discourse on a higher level.”
—Rabbi Asher Bush, Chairman of the Va’ad Halacha of the Rabbinical Council of America and Rav of Cong. Ahavas Yisrael of Wesley Hills

“Rabbi Gil Student’s Hirhurim blog offers an arresting mix of news and commentary suffused with sharp intelligence and penetrating insight – qualities not always evident on other blogs that fly an Orthodox banner. Anyone whose Judaism is not defined by a near-primitive tribalism bordering on outright racism or, on the other extreme, a slavish devotion to politically correct liberalism at the expense of Torah, will find in Hirhurim an oasis of enlightened Orthodoxy.”
—Jason Maoz, Senior Editor, The Jewish Press

Rabbi Gil Student is a popular writer who has been featured in The Jewish Press, Jewish Action and other periodicals. His internet writings include a number of websites and his award-winning blog, Torah-Musings.

Rabbi Student is a Yeshiva College alumnus who has acquired private rav u-manhig ordination. He has spent most of his career in insurance and finance but has also founded and run Yashar Books, a small Orthodox publishing house.