May 22, 2025 | 24 Iyyar, 5785 - 39th day of the Omer | Torah Portion: Behar Bechukosai, Leviticus 25:1-27:34 | Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14
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Parsha Summary for Parshas Behar & Bechukosai
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person ...read more

Trust in Hashem and the Consequences of Faithlessness
Haftarah for Bechukosai — Yirmiyahu 16:19–17:14
Theme: Trust in Hashem and the Consequences of Faithlessness
Overview:
The Haftarah opens ...read more

Eternal Relationship with Hashem and His Land
BEHARYirmiyahu 32:6–27
Eternal Relationship with Hashem and His LandThis week’s Haftarah attests to the eternal relationship between the Jewish ...read more

I Do, Therefore I Am
"When you make a sale to your fellow..."(25:14)
Based upon the sequence of the verses, the Talmud teaches how severe is the impact of ...read more

Arvus – Communal Responsibility
The Story
Sarah was thrilled to finally have her friend from across the street, Liya, come over to her house to play one afternoon. The two ...read more

Green Energy and Source Power
This week's Torah portion begins by outlining in great detail the laws of the Sabbatical year, where the entire land demonstrated that the ...read more

Freedom, Jubilee and You
"And you will count seven Shmitah {Sabbatical} cycles -- seven years, seven times -- forty-nine years . . . and you will sanctify the fiftieth ...read more

Blind Faith
The commandment of Shemitah is a test of our faith and an examination in our true belief in the Almighty's ability to sustain us. The Torah ...read more
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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

It Means NO!
And HASHEM said to Moshe: Speak to the kohanim, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: (LO – LAMED-ALEPH) Do not let anyone defile himself for a ...read more
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Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 41-43(a): Maturity and the Big Picture
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(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