April 13, 2021 ✦ 1 Iyyar, 5781 - Rosh Chodesh Iyar - 16th day of the Omer ✦ Torah Portion: Tazria Metzorah, Leviticus 12:1-15:33 ✦ Haftorah: Kings II 7:3-20
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Reward And Punishment
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1200 – Bugs read more
Self-Serving
And Aaron's sons, Nadav and Avihu, each took his pan, put fire in them, and placed incense upon it, and they brought before HASHEM a foreign ...read more
Forbidden Waters
Certain practices are just too vile and despicable for civilized people to endure, especially when it comes to food. The thought of chewing and ...read more
Two Dedications in One
BS”D
Volume 35, No. 25
28 Nissan 5781
April 10, 2021
Dedicated in gratitude to Hashem
on Hamaayan’s 34th birthday
and in memory ...read more
Not Always Is Help Extended
Moshe and Aharon came to the Ohel Moed, and they went out and blessed the people.[2]
What berachah did they need at this time? Rashi (citing ...read more
Just Say Treif!
In teaching us the kosher laws this week, the Torah deviates from a meritorious procedure.
Normally the Torah hardly elaborates unnecessarily, read more
Golden Silence
Shabbos Night
FOR ABOUT A year now, I have been going for an early morning walk, kind of my pre-dovening hisbodedus (meditation). It is still ...read more
Kosher is a Blessing
One of the more distinguishing life values which Judaism advocates is the type of food that a Jew eats. There are foods that Jews are commanded ...read more
What Emerges From the Olah
Command Aharon and his sons, saying, “This is the Torah of the olah. It is the olah that stays on the flame on the altar…[2]
Ramban explains ...read more
Eternal Lessons
BS”D
Volume 35, No. 24
14 Nissan 5781
March 27, 2021
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Aaron and Rona Lerner
in memory of their fathers
Avraham ben Yaakov ...read more
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Multiple Kedushos
At times one may recite Shacharis early and spend the rest of the morning learning Torah in the shul. If he is sitting in a shul that hosts one ...read more
Obligation or Privilege?: Part III
Student Comments and Questions
This week's class features student responses to "Women in Judaism: Obligation or Privilege", which appeared in read more
Taking Money Found on the Street
QUESTION 78:
I understand that according to Halacha (Jewish Law), I can keep a ten-dollar bill that I find in the street. Is it a higher ...read more
Chapter 1, Law 4(b)-5 – Rational or Crazy?
Law 4 (end -- see last week for entire text)
Any person whose character traits all fall in the center, midway between the extremes, is ...read more
Chapter 1, Mishna 1(a): Who Gave the Rabbis the Right…
Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it Joshua. Joshua transmitted it to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets ...read more
Chapter 1, Laws 3-4(a) – Reaching Our Own Stars
Law 3
The two extremes of each quality are not the proper and worthy path for one to follow or train himself in. And if a person finds his ...read more
Conclusion: To Understand Man
Rabbi Chananya ben (son of) Akashya said: The Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to give Israel merit; therefore He gave them Torah and mitzvos ...read more
Chapter 1, Law 2 – Controlling Our Destiny
There is between each extreme of disposition more moderate dispositions, each different from the other. There are some dispositions which a ...read more
Chapter 6, Mishna 11: We Can Write No More
Everything that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created in His world He created only for His honor, as it is written, 'All that is called by My ...read more
Chapter 1, Law 1 – The First Commandment: Know Yourself
"There are many types of dispositions known to man, each different from the other, sometimes to an extreme. There is a person who possesses a ...read more
