October 22, 2024 | 20 Tishrei, 5785 - Sukkos VI (Chol HaMoed) | Torah Portion: Bereishis, Genesis 1:1-6:8 | Haftorah: Isaiah 42:5-43:10
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THE END OF the Torah also means the end of Moshe Rabbeinu’s life. Everyone knows that he was a great person, but it is worth adding a few more ...read more
The Clothes Make the Man After Man Makes Amends
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A Masterpiece
You shall not recognize the gods of others in My presence. Do not make for yourself a carved image (lecha pesal) nor any likeness of that which ...read more
The Shofar Of Yom Kippur
The Shofar is sounded near the end of Yom Kippur. As we’ve written, there is a link between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. (The Rabbis actually ...read more
On the Importance of Appeasing Those We Have Hurt
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Volume 38, No. 52
10 Tishrei 5785
October 12, 2024
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Counterfeit!
This week we read the parsha of Ha'azinu, quickly followed by the holiday of Sukkos which begins on Monday.
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Say It With Chumros
The forty days from the beginning of Elul through Yom Kippur correspond with the forty days during which Moshe beseeched Hashem to forgive Bnei ...read more
Birchos HaTorah
The Story
Aryeh was having a difficult morning. The smoke detector went off in his home just after he woke up. He ran outside with his whole ...read more
Open Door Policy
They are among the most stirring words in the Torah. In vermilion verse, Moses calls upon heaven and earth to bear witness to the poetic image ...read more
Non-Trivial Pursuit
The song of Ha'azinu encompasses a panoramic view of Jewish history. It tells of the past, present, and future of Klal Yisrael. However, Moshe ...read more
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This is the way of the Torah: Bread and salt you will eat, measured water you will drink, on the ground you will sleep, a life of suffering you ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 3: Creating Souls
One who learns from his fellow a single chapter [of Torah], a single law, a single verse, a single statement, or even a single letter, must ...read more
A Thought From the Haftorah of the First Day of Rosh Hashana
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1393 - ...read more
Chapter 10, Law 3 – Crazy for G-d
How is the appropriate love [one should have for G-d]? It is that one loves G-d a great, excessive, extreme, and exceedingly intense love until ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 2(b) : Is Torah a Burden? Part II
Rabbi Yehoshua ben (son of) Levi said, on every day a heavenly voice emanates from Mount Horeb, announcing: 'Woe to them, the people, because of ...read more
Chapter 10, Law 2 – Abraham’s Devotion
One who serves [G-d] out of love studies Torah, [performs] the mitzvos (commandments), and goes in the paths of wisdom not because of any factor ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 2(a) : Is Torah a Burden? Part I
Rabbi Yehoshua ben (son of) Levi said, on every day a heavenly voice emanates from Mount Horeb, announcing: 'Woe to them, the people, because of ...read more
Chapter 10, Law 1 – Love and Self-Deception
A person should not say, 'I will fulfill the mitzvos (commandments) of the Torah and study its wisdom in order that I receive the blessings ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 1(b) : What G-d Really Wants – Part II
Rabbi Meir (Mai-eer) said: Anyone who engages in Torah study for its own sake ('lishma') merits many things. Not only that, but the entire world ...read more
Chapter 9, Law 2 – Why We Want the Messiah
On account of this, all of Israel -- their prophets and sages -- yearned for the era of the Anointed King (the Messiah), in order that the ...read more