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Parshios Behar & Bechukosai
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Drasha by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
- Paying it Forward (5783)
- Grateful Bread (5782)
- Land Lessons (5782)
- Home Free – For All (5782)
- No One to Hide From (5781)
- Out of the Depths (5780)
- A Separate Peace (5779)
- Blind Faith (5779)
- … But Were Afraid To Ask (5779)
- Toil Trouble (5778)
Dvar Torah by Rabbi Label Lam
- Savor the Flavor (5783)
- Well Worth the Effort (5781)
- A Devastating Error (5780)
- IF… (5779)
- The Formula for Success (5779)
- Direction! Not Perfection! (5778)
- Plugged In (5777)
- It Tastes that Great (5776)
- Your Genius for Helping (5776)
- Germany (5775)
- That Demands Effort (5774)
- Every 7th Year (5774)
- The Long Short Way (5773)
- Then Peace Has a Chance (5772)
- The Gift of All Gifts! (5771)
- To Fill That Void (5770)
- Masters of the Obvious (5769)
- Understand it Very Well (5768)
- Always On (5768)
- The Peace We Seek (5767)
- If Only (5766)
- That’s Worth Everything (5765)
- This Very Earth (5764)
- A Most Beautiful Orchard (5763)
- Back To Sinai (5763)
- What We All Really Want! (5762)
- The Birthday Card (5761)
- A Bill of Goods (5760)
- Gainless Cheating (5759)
- Repay Kindness (5757)
Haftorah Commentary by Rabbi Dovid Siegel
Haftorah Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- Haftorah Summary for Parshas Bechukosai (5782)
- Haftorah Summary for Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (5780)
- Haftorah Summary for Parshas Behar (5779)
Hamaayan by Shlomo Katz
Kol HaKollel by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
- Divine Gifts (5783)
- Appreciating Miracles (5778)
- Waiting For Payday (5765)
- Understanding We Don’t Understand (5765)
- For Yourself (5764)
- Coming Ever Closer (5763)
- Three For The Price Of One (5763)
Legacy by Rabbi Naftali Reich
- Enough Is Never Enough (5783)
- One – and Only – One (5782)
- The Unlimited Reward Plan (5779)
- Small Coincidences (5779)
- Green Energy and Source Power (5778)
- A Place of Refuge (5777)
- Familiarity Breeds Respect (5771)
Lifeline by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
- Listen on Repeat (5783)
- Countering Chaos (5782)
- Grabbing Hands (5782)
- You Can’t Google Torah (5780)
- What Difference Does it Make? (5779)
- The Oral Law (5764)
- Blessings and Curses (5763)
- Effort Counts (5762)
- Free of Spiritual Bonds (5760)
- All In Order (5758)
- Needless Love (5757)
- Spirtuality Outside the Synagogue (5757)
- Payment for More (5755)
- The Price of Tea in China (5755)
Parsha Halacha for the Shabbos Table by Joshua Kruger
Parsha Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Behar (5778)
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Bechukosai (5765)
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (5765)
Rabbi Wein by Rabbi Berel Wein
- A Kernel of Good (5783)
- In Summation of Vayikra – Leviticus (5782)
- A Mountain of Inspiration (5782)
- This is the Reality We Face in a Sabbatical Year (5781)
- Value of a Human Being (5780)
- Repercussions and Resilience (5779)
- Mountain Climbers (5779)
- “Never Again” – Admonition or Undertaking? (5778)
- A Realistic View of Life (5777)
- Toil in Torah (5775)
- Our Difficulties (5774)
- Sinai: The Basis for Judaism (5774)
- Torah is Integrity (5773)
- We are All Travelers (5772)
- Do Not Fall Into the Trap (5771)
- The Sabbatical Year: God Rules Over Us (5771)
- Realities of Life (5768)
- At the Mountain (5768)
- Undeniable Rule (5766)
- From Gory to Glory (5765)
- The Myth of Ownership (5765)
- Where Have the Years Gone? (5761)
- Leap of Faith (5760)
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Short Vorts by Rabbi Chaim Flom
Table Talk by Rabbi Raymond Beyda
The Living Law by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene
Intermediate Level
Beyond Pshat by Rabbi Yosef Kalatzky
- The Basis for Self (5772)
- Reflecting the Image of G’d Through One’s Observance (5765)
- The Gift of the Land of Israel (5765)
- The Hidden Meaning of Mitzvos (5764)
- The Special Value of the Jew (5763)
- The Sanctity of Shmitta (5763)
Hamaayan by Shlomo Katz
- Shemittah and the Articles of Faith (5783)
- Where’s the Reward? (5782)
- Concealed Strength (5782)
- This Land is My Land? Your Land? (5781)
- Seven Years of Faith (5780)
- Days of Preparation (5779)
- It’s the Thought That Counts! (5779)
- It’s All in the Preparation (5778)
- She Builds With Wisdom (5777)
- Why Rest? (5775)
- Book Ends (5774)
- Shemittah and Torah: From Sinai (5774)
- The Hidden Light (5772)
- Parshas Bechukosai (5771)
- Whose Land? (5771)
- Sevens (5770)
- Seven Pillars (5769)
- Laws of the Land (5768)
- Why Shemittah? (5768)
- What Makes the Land Holy (5767)
- Plant AND Harvest (5766)
- A Cruel Reaction (5765)
- Cruel to Oneself (5763)
- Whose Land Is It Anyway? (5763)
- Why Are There Five Books in the Torah? (5762)
- Humble From Beginning to End (5761)
- Toil in Torah as an End In Itself (5760)
- Planting Without Picking (5759)
- Do We Need Doctors? (5758)
Olas Shabbos by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
- Redemption – The Long and Short of It (5765)
- Avoiding Usury – In Your Own Best Interest (5764)
- A Worth-While Study Into Human Nature (5763)
- Torah and Mitzvos – A Portable Sanctuary (5763)
- An Honest Mistake (5761)
- Labor of Love (5760)
- You Better Believe! (5760)
- Casualness and Consistency (5758)
Parsha Insights by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- Know Who Controls Our Destiny! (5783)
- Smacks of Affection (5782)
- A Snake’s Bite (5782)
- Pipelines for Blessings (5779)
- Something We Can Call ‘Our Own’ (5778)
- A Back-Handed Compliment (5777)
- Freedom, Jubilee and You (5765)
- Shmita and Unity (5758)
Perceptions by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
- How? That’s How (5783)
- War Against Evil (5782)
- The Present of Shabbos (5782)
- Bigger Picture (5781)
- Shmittah and Mt. Sinai (5780)
- Survival of the Spiritually Fittest (5779)
- View From the Top (5779)
- Safe & Sound (5778)
- Kiddush and Blessing (5777)
- The Better of Two Rights (5776)
- Cause For Effect (5775)
- The Rest Of The Nation (5775)
- There Is No Such Thing As Coincidence (5774)
- God Is In Control (5774)
- Unity for Ourselves, or for Each Other? (5773)
- Respect for the Poor (5772)
- In God We Trust (5771)
- The Numercal Value of Gog U’magog (5771)
- Are the Jewish People Ready for the Final Redemption? (5770)
- Reward and Punishment (5769)
- A Gift Of G-d (5767)
- Da’as in the Wind (5766)
- How do YOU Spell Relief: B-R-I-S-A-V-O-S (5764)
- A Matter Of Decree (5763)
- Sh’mittah Revisited (5763)
- Statutes of Liberty (5761)
- Statutes of Limitations (5760)
- Of Interest to Us All (5759)
- Of Chukos and Chizak (5758)
- A Har-ty Heart (5758)
- A Random Curse or a Curse of Randomness? (5757)
- Not Like The Rest of Them (5757)
Rabbi's Notebook by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- The Sanctity Connection (5766)
- The Etiology Of Sin (5765)
- The Perpetuity Of Purpose (5765)
- Indifference, Casualness, & By-Chance ? Oh My! (5764)
- Just Imagine… (5763)
- Doing It MyWay! (5763)
- Sensitivity Training (5762)
- Manual for a Sanctified Life (5761)
- So, Who Is The Boss? (5760)
- Ever Think of Farming? (5759)
- Delusions of Grandeur (5758)
Rav Frand by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
- The “Chok” Aspect of Diligent Torah Study (5783)
- We Toil and They Toil; We Run and They Run (5782)
- A Time for Belief and a Time for Heresy (5782)
- Cheating is Forbidden — Honesty is the Best Policy as Well (5781)
- The Vav From Eliyahu’s Name (5780)
- Yovel Is About Going Back to the Source (5780)
- Bechukosai and Destroying Chometz (5779)
- Inappropriate Bitachon & A Story of Improper Farewell Gifts (5779)
- Shemittah, Mt. Sinai, and Life’s Ultimate Challenge (5778)
- Shemittah, Bitachon & Learning Torah (5777)
- There’s Good News, and Bad News (5776)
- Let Him Who Is Without Guilt NOT Throw The Last Stone (5776)
- A Blessing for Those Who Ask and a Blessing for Those Who Don’t (5775)
- I Love You and I Will Not Be Disgusted by You (5774)
- The Shofar of the Yovel: Positive Peer Pressure (5774)
- How “Aliyah L’Regel” Sneaks In To Be One of the “Big Three” (5773)
- Make Peace and Greet Moshiach (5772)
- Rains of Blessing: Getting the Most When the Farmer can do the Least (5771)
- Minimize the Nisayon Wherever Possible (5771)
- How Easy It Is To Forget Last Year (5770)
- Your Customer Has A Famous Father (5769)
- The Inverted Sequence of the Patriarchs (5768)
- The Shofar of the Jubilee Year: Positive Peer Pressure (5768)
- The Redundant Security Guarantee (5767)
- Make Peace and Greet Moshiach (5766)
- The Linkage Between Truth and the Exodus (5765)
- Misery Loves Company (5764)
- Aspiring to Be Not Normal (5762)
- Greatest Blessing of All (5761)
- There’s Good News, and Bad News (5760)
- Shmitah and Cheating (5759)
- Positive Peer Pressure (5758)
- I Love You…I Will Not Be Disgusted by You (5757)
- The Tests of Chukim and Mishpatim (5757)
- Make Peace and Greet Moshiach (5756)
The Shmuz on the Parsha by Rabbi B. Shafier
Advanced Level
Abarbanel by Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari
Be’eros by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
- Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory (5775)
- Ultimate Reality (5774)
- Shemitah is For Angels (5774)
Gal Einai by Gedalia Litke
Growing with the Parsha by Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz
Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
- Abandoning The Land (5773)
- The End of the Plague (5780)
- Parshas Bechukosai – How to Emerge From Galus (5771)
- Parshas Behar – To Be Or Not To Be (5771)
- Parshas Bechukosai – Making the Numbers Count (5770)
- Torah Reading For Parashas Bechukosai (5773)
- Mitzvas Tefillin: Questions And Answers (5772)
- How Does An Item Becomes Muktzeh? (5771)
- Preparing For Shabbos Properly (5770)
- Listening To The Torah Reading (5767)
- She’ailos U’Teshuvos (5765)
- Sheiailos U’Teshuvos (5765)
- Proper Kavanah At Shemoneh Esrei (5761)
- Matters Of Interest (5758)