by Rabbi Label Lam | Feb 20, 2003 | Beginner
Now you shall command the Children of Israel that they should take for you pure, pressed olive oil for illumination, to kindle the lamp continuously. (Shemos 27:20) Pressed: He presses the olives in a mortar and does not grind them with millstones so that there should...
by Rabbi Label Lam | Jun 16, 2023 | Beginner
And HASHEM spoke to Moshe, saying: “Speak to the Children of Israel and you shall say to them that they shall make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments, throughout their generations, and they shall affix a thread of sky blue on the fringe of each...
by Rabbi Label Lam | Dec 29, 2022 | Beginner
How can I go up to my father if the (Naar) boy is not with me?… (Breishis 44:34) Sometimes a verse in the Torah can be learned as a freestanding statement abstract from the context of the narrative. Here Yehuda is desperately pleading to rescue his youngest...
by Jon Erlbaum | Sep 6, 2022 | Beginner
This week’s insights are dedicated to my truly amazing Mom, who in my teenage years sent me the most lovingly clever letter: borrowing song titles and lyrics from the Classic Rock Group known as “The Who”, and seamlessly incorporating them into an...
by Rabbi Label Lam | Jul 29, 2020 | Beginner
All who eat and drink on the 9th of Av will not see the rejoicing of Jerusalem and all who mourn for Jerusalem will merit to see her joy… (Shulchan Aruch- Orach Chaim 554:25) All who eat and drink on the 9th of Av: It is enough for the house of our G-d to be...
