by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein | Sep 25, 2019 | Advanced
Mitzvos are not random exercises that ensure that we stay loyal and committed to Hashem. We are all comfortable with the idea that each mitzvah has its reason, whether that rationale is apparent to us or not. Lurking behind these reasons are other benefits and...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Sep 25, 2019 | Beginner
This week’s reading in the Torah describes the eternal binding covenant between God and the Jewish people. This covenant has played itself out over thousands of years of world history and remains valid and operative today as it did on the day that Moshe...
by Shlomo Katz | Sep 20, 2019 | Intermediate
BS”D Volume 33, No.49 21 Elul 5779 September 21, 2019 Our Parashah opens: “V’hayah / It will be when you enter the Land that Hashem, your Elokim, is giving you as an inheritance, and you will possess it and dwell in it.” R’ Chaim Palagi z”l (1788-1868; Chief Rabbi of...
by Rabbi Naftali Reich | Sep 19, 2019 | Beginner
In this week’s Torah portion, we read the tochacha, a grim litany of frightening curses that Hashem promises will befall the nation if they stray from Him. The Torah also outlines the tochacha in the parsha of Bechukosai at the end of Leviticus. There, too, the...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Sep 19, 2019 | Beginner
Saying thank you is one of the basic courtesies of human interaction. Though elementary and straightforward, it is often forgotten or neglected. In saying thank you, we are acknowledging that we are dependent upon the goodness and consideration of others and that we...
