Celebrating Simchas Torah All Year Round
Yes, I know that Sukkos is already over. Sorry, I am simply not ready to get back to the weekly parshah just yet. The [...]
Yes, I know that Sukkos is already over. Sorry, I am simply not ready to get back to the weekly parshah just yet. The [...]
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, we prepare ourselves not only for the yemei hadin, for the judgment of the coming year, but perhaps more primarily [...]
We are now more than halfway through the month of Elul, and it is high time that we connect to its essence. We concluded [...]
We are approximately one-third of the way through the month of Elul, and so it behooves us to understand its essence a bit better [...]
We are in the midst of trying to understand why, in the prohibition against listening to a person who performs wonders and ‘signs’ and [...]
The passuk in this week’s parshah states, (Devarim 13:2-6): “If there should stand in your midst a prophet… and he will produce to you [...]
We have seen last week that the Ramban seemingly attributes two parts to the prohibition of “You shall not test Hashem.” One is that [...]
Parshas Va’eschanan contains a negative mitzvah, a prohibition, articulated in the passuk (Devarim 6:16) “You shall not test Hashem, as you tested Him at [...]
Last week, we discussed the essential underlying concept of korbanos as explained by Maharal in Nesiv Ha’avodah. The Maharal explains that sacrificing a domesticated animal, [...]
Matos/Masei Bulletin in PDF format What is Kabalas Shabbos? Six Chapters in Tehillim, which 'represent' the six days which just passed. They describe the [...]
We are currently in the midst of ‘The Three Weeks,’ a time of year that Chazal call ‘bein hametzarim’ (between the confining barriers), or, [...]
In this week’s sedrah (Bamidbar 27:12-13), Hashem says to Moshe Rabbeinu, “Go up to this mountain of Avarim and see the Land that I have [...]