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Forty-Nine Or Fifty?[1]
Until the morrow of the seventh week, you shall count fifty days.[2]
This pasuk puts quite a strain on any regard we may have for arithmetic. ...read more
A Different Role
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Volume 39, No. 29
19 Iyar 5785
May 17, 2025
Much of Parashat Emor is devoted to laws applicable only to Kohanim, as the Parashah ...read more
Haftorah Commentary Parshas Emor
Yechezkel 44:15–31
Sanctity in Mashiach’s Times
We appeal to Hashem all the time to bring us our long-awaited redemption. Did we ever ...read more
Do As I Do
This week we read the parsha of Emor. In last week's parsha the entire Bnei Yisroel {Children of Israel}were commanded to be holy. In this ...read more
Teaching By Example
"...Say to the Kohanim, the sons of Aharon, and tell them: Each of you shall not contaminate himself to a (dead) person among his people" ...read more
Speak Softly and Put Up With a Lot of Shtick
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1335 – May ...read more
Sefiras HaOmer
The Story
It was Friday night and the Feldman family were sitting at their table, enjoying their Shabbos meal. Everyone was appreciative that ...read more
Over the Top
How long would it take for a single person to lift twenty-two thousand full-grown men off the ground one at a time? It is exhausting even to ...read more
Mitzvah-Watch
Observation does not necessarily mean participation - at least in an etymological or grammatical sense. My dealings with Jews who do not keep ...read more
Be A Vessel
This Thursday is Lag B’Omer, b”H. It is the day we are told on which Rebi Shimon bar Yochai died, but not before revealing the Zohar to his most ...read more
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Chapter 2, Law 7(c) – The Power of the Human Eye, Part II
...Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., 'one of a wide soul'), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 39-40: Words of Peace, Words of Truth
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is ...read more
Modim (cont.): Gratefulness for Everything
Last class, we continued our general introduction of the seventeenth blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai (and the first blessing of our final section ...read more
Chapter 2, Law 7(b) – The Power of the Human Eye, Part I
...Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., 'one of a wide soul'), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Way 38: “Inclining Others”
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is ...read more
Chapter 2, Law 7(a) – Torah through Laughter
One should not be a person of levity and mockery ('s'chok v'hatail'), nor sad and somber, but cheerful ('samai'ach'). So too did the Sages say, ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Way 37: Helping Others
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is ...read more
Chapter 2, Law 6 – Smooth Talk and Self-Deception
It is forbidden for a person to accustom himself to speaking words of 'smoothness' and deception. And a person should not be of different mind ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 34-36(b): The Human Challenge – Part II
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 34-36(a): The Human Challenge – Part I
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is ...read more
