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 [...]
Ask Not For Whom The Person Toils, You Toil For Thee
One of the more fundamental principles concerning Torah and mitzvos is stated in the first Rashi in Parshas Bechukosai. Rashi, referring to the seeming redundancy [...]
It’s Only Natural
The sedra this week famously begins, “If you follow my decrees, and observe my commandments and perform them, then I will produce your rains [...]
Emor or Omer, Part Two
We are in the middle of sefiras ha’omer, right? Well, we are also in the middle of a column exploring what those very words [...]
Emor — Or Is It Omer? Part One
This week’s Torah-reading takes us on a trip around-the-Jewish-year-in-Festivals. And one of the stops is the korban minchah (grain offering) brought on the sixteenth [...]
Laziness, Part Four… And Beyond
We have seen that laziness — in all of its forms — is a foundation of sin (Part One). That is why the Mesilas [...]
I Was Too Lazy To Write This Column (Especially After I Was Handed A New Reason To Be Too Lazy To Do It), But Then… Part Three
I am often accused of being stubborn . I have always stubbornly refused to concede to that designation, claiming that the middah being exhibited [...]
I Was Too Lazy To Write This Column, But Then… Part Two
As we head closer and closer to Chag Hapesach, we should perhaps be reminded by our own frantic, frenzied mood and actions that the Torah [...]
I Was Too Lazy To Write This Column, But Then… Part One
Apropos of reading Parshas Hachodesh this Shabbos, let us examine a pasuk which frames the upcoming Chag Hapesach and its icon, matzah. The pasuk [...]
Shabbos and the Mishkan
In Parshas Ki Sisa, after a full description of the Mishkan and the bigdei kehunah in Terumah and Tetzaveh, there are a few pesukim which [...]
Persia or Amalek?
We read Parshas Zachor this Shabbos, im yirtzeh Hashem, about remembering the story of Amalek and our obligation to destroy them. Chazal instituted fulfilling [...]