Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vaeschanan
Vaeschanan Bulletin in PDF format A person may daven shemoneh esrei either with closed eyes, or looking into a siddur, whichever results in greater [...]
Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Devarim
Devarim Bulletin in PDF Format In Mincha on the fast of Tish'a B'Av, the prayer nachem is added to the beracha of v'liY'rushalayim, and [...]
What Do You Mean, You Don’t Feel Like It? Part 2
Let us try to achieve what we talked about in last week’s column. The first idea is remembering, perceiving, and feeling the tazros of [...]
Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Matos/Masei
Matos.Masei Bulletin in PDF format If one forgets to say ya'aleh v'yavo at Minchah Friday Rosh Chodesh, and Shabbos is NOT Rosh Chodesh, it [...]
What Do You Mean, You Don’t Feel Like It? Part 1
The “Three Week” period, a.k.a. Bein Hametzarim, has various minhagim concerning how we are to exhibit our pain and anguish over the churban Beis [...]
Miracle Of Miracles! Part Two (And A Thought For Shabbos 17 Tammuz)
Last week, we saw that there can be two very different goals when a miracle occurs. One is when natural occurrences do not seem to [...]
Vasikin Schedule for Av 5772
Vasikin Schedule for Av 5772 in PDF format
Miracle of Miracles! Part One
The sedra of Chukas is full of action: parah adumah, the death of Miriam, mei merivah, the death of Aharon Hakohen, war with Amalek, the [...]
The Ying-Yang of Shelach-Korach
The sedras of Shelach and Korach, read in the Torah last week and this week, are pretty much back-to-back unmitigated disasters for the Jewish [...]
The Meraglim Saga, Through The Eyes Of Ramban
When the meraglim returned from Eretz Yisrael with their report, their first detrimental declaration was, “However, the people who dwell in the Land are [...]
E Pluribus Unum (Did You Look It Up?) Part Two
We left off last week’s column trying to decipher the nature of the korbanos that the nesi’im brought, with which they inaugurated the Mizbeach at the [...]
E Pluribus Unum (Look it Up) Part One
We read in this week’s sedra of the inauguration of the Mizbeach (the Altar) which lasted for twelve days, with special korbanos being brought [...]