Hamaayan
Edited by Shlomo Katz
Hamaayan is prepared by laymen and published weekly for the edification and enjoyment of the reader who is lacking the time or ability to study the weekly parashah on his own. Hamaayan’s goal is to acquaint the reader with a broad spectrum of traditional Torah commentary — classical, recent and “obscure” — as well as with aspects of Jewish history and thought.
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Bereishis
- As Fleeting As . . .
- Be Creative!
- Chochmah, Tevunah, and Daat
- Deja Vu All Over Again . . . Then Shabbat
- Do Torah!
- Every Word a Mitzvah
- Everything in Its Time
- Excuse Me!
- In The Beginning
- Keep the Light On!
- Know that you Know Nothing
- Living Forever
- Longing for Shabbat
- No Doubt
- Straightforward and Upright
- Strong Belief
- The Kindness in Creation
- The Small Bang
- The Uniqueness of Man
- Then and Now
- Understanding Creation
- What a Wonderful World!
- What Ends Must Have Begun!
- Which Came First?
- Why Tell Stories?
- "G-d Watches Over Man"
- A Tale of Two Tzaddikim
- A Test of Faith
- Back To The Daily Grind
- But Will You Save Others?
- Consolation
- Construction in Destruction
- Immorality Around Us
- Intellectual Beliefs
- Investing in the Land
- Love versus Fear
- Make it a Habit
- Mixed Feelings
- New Beginnings
- Nourishment for the Soul
- One for All!
- Out of the Darkness
- Parshas Noach
- The Day Falsehood Married Destruction
- The Dove’s Rest
- The Excitement of Every Day
- The Flood
- The Ideal Way of Life
- Ask for Spiritual Wealth
- Avraham "Our Father"
- Avraham Was Unique!
- Better A Second Time Around
- Don't Walk in Front of Me (Anymore)
- Freedom of Man
- Guardian of the Pledge
- If it bothers you enough . . .
- Journey to Perfection
- Like Perfume
- Not Just Any Place
- Not Too High
- Saved in Yaakov's Merit
- Take the Initiative!
- The chessed of Avraham
- The Deeds of the Patriachs
- The Moral of the Story
- The Patriarchs’ Trust
- The Sweet Aroma
- There is a Builder
- This Land Is My Land (and Our Land)
- You Shall Live by Them
- A Covenant and an Oath
- A Family for the Torah
- A Little Bit
- A Part of the Whole
- Angel Food Cakes
- Believe in Your Own Prayer!
- Eating for 74
- Hachnassat Orchim
- Hashem’s Humility
- Honor Versus Wealth
- Is He Really Humble?
- Man and Animal
- Prayer
- Religious Coercion
- Sleep Tight
- Something to Eat
- Spiritual Eating Habits
- Take a Fresh Look
- The Beauty Within the Shadows
- The Real Rivalry
- The Real Test
- The Traits of Avraham
- Truth
- Vayera
- Washing the Workweek Away
- 100+20+7
- A Bolt of Lightning
- A Time to Dance
- Beginnings and Endings
- By the Light of the Shabbat Candles
- Hashem’s Courtyard
- Hidden Kindness
- It's All a Blessing
- Just Ask
- Mincha
- Monetary Lessons
- Priorities In Order
- Say Little
- Test, Kindness, and Faith
- The Firsts Lady
- The Path Of Life
- The Price of Holiness
- Two Firsts
- What’s Important?
- Wholesome Sarah
- "Go to Peace"
- A Father's Plan
- Comparison Shopping
- Esav's Game
- Fathers and Sons
- Fear, Fear Not
- His Father's Son
- Like Father, Like Son
- Missions Possible
- New Week: New Blessings
- Parshas Toldos
- Prayer Offerings
- Proud of Each Other
- Still Growing?
- The Bravery of a Jew
- The Mystery of the Wells
- The Plan
- Un-natural
- We Have a Share
- Well, Well, Well
- Who deserves a blessing?
- 3M (Ma’ariv and Melaveh Malkah)
- A Special Land
- Accompanying Angles
- Anti-Semitism: The Original Source
- Behold! It Was Leah!
- Believe in Yourself
- Building a Jewish Home
- Can You Pass The Test?
- Destined for Each Other?
- Down to Earth
- Free Will and Bashert
- G-d Willing!
- Glory, Shine, and Beauty
- In Every Generation
- Leah's Eyes
- Lessons from Ladders
- The 'Luz' Bone
- Tower of Strength
- True Riches
- Worth the Wait
- Yaakov’s Strength
- A Good Name Forfeited in a Moment
- Achieving Balance
- All on Shabbat
- Alone on That Day
- Devising Strategies
- G-dliness
- How Free Is Your Will?
- How to Enjoy This World
- In G-d We Trust – But How Much?
- In His Image
- It’s Okay to be Afraid
- Let Sleeping Fogs Lie
- Messenger Mitzvos
- Pray for Me
- Remaining Whole
- Shabbat Shalom
- The Heritage of Yaakov
- The Reunion
- This Land Is My Land”
- You've Earned It!
- "Stand Tall!"
- A Life Worth Living
- A New Perspective
- A Torah Perspective
- Be Patient!
- Chanukah and Mechiras Yosef: The Hidden Connection
- Counsel of Hashem
- Hashem’s Thought Will Prevail
- Judging Favorably
- Let Prophets Speak!
- Lights
- Nothing Hurts More...
- Notice the Small Things!
- One Nation, Divisible
- Pulling the Strings of History
- Second Chances
- The Blessings Are in the Details
- The Good, the Bad, and the Good
- The Lost Jewel
- The Missing Jewel
- Tragic Shechem
- Who Knows Eleven?
- Yehuda, Yosef and Chanukah
- Build with Your Dreams
- Chanaukah Lights
- Chanukah and the Torah Scholar
- Chanukah Vs. Purim
- Darkness and Light
- Don't Forget the Butler
- Dreaming
- Dreams
- For Every Detail
- Good and Bad Company
- Hashem Is Good!
- In the nick of time
- Parshas Miketz
- Standing Over the River
- Thanks for What?
- The Best Laid Plans
- The New Jew
- The Right Time for Rain
- Things Acquired With Pain
- Trust
- Choices That Matter
- Growing in Exile
- Guarantors
- It's All in the Delivery
- Never-Ending Merit
- Of Wagons, Calves, and Trust
- Parshas Vayigash
- Shabbat and Shalom
- Shabbat Shalom
- The Challenge
- The Real Danger
- The Ultimate Rebuke
- Vayigash
- Visions of the Temples
- Yaakov's Descent to Egypt
- Yosef: Man of Shalom
- Yosef’s Faith, Yaakov’s Reward
- You Are Like Pharoah
- A Complete ‘Shema’
- All for One
- “To Rest or Not to Rest”
- Beneath the Surface
- From Mitzrayim to the Temple Services
- Miracle Trees
- Now and Forever
- Parshas Vayechi
- Rachel's Cries
- Reconciliation
- Seeing the Light
- Shabbos Calm
- Subtle Choices
- That's also Lashon Hara
- The Beginning
- The End of Days
- The Good Life
- The Shadow
- The Sparks of the Patriarchs
- To Rest or Not to Rest
Shemos
- A Learning Experience
- A Time of Reflection
- Aliens
- Appreciation
- Balanced Forces
- Bondage of the Hebrews: The Egyptian Perspective
- Can You Keep A Secret?
- In Our Youth
- Individuality
- It's All Good
- It's All in Your Mind
- Later Rather than Sooner
- Parshat Shmot
- Prince of Egypt?
- The Baby and the Bath Water
- The Moment of the Decree
- The Path You Choose
- The Wise
- Thoughts of Shabbat
- Was It Proven that G-d Dosn't Exist?
- What if?
- Yaakov and His Children
- A New Kind of Miracle
- A Slave's Ransom
- Articles of Faith
- Design and Implementation
- Four Expressions of Redemption
- Gratitude to a Plant
- It's All Part of the Plan
- Justice
- Lesson in Leadership
- Returning to Equilibrium
- Shabbat, Emunah
- Shabbat: Source of Faith
- Subconsciously
- The Four Cups
- The Merit of the Patriarchs
- The Righteous Warrior
- The Role of Faith
- The Slavery in Egypt
- Who Knows Four?
- Why Don’t They Listen?
- A Soft Heart
- Coming or Going?
- Counting the Plagues
- Egypt vs. Shabbat
- Eye of the Land
- Hedged With Roses
- It's Amazing
- Mitzvot and Joy
- Praiseworthy
- Shabbat and the Exodus
- Slaves No More!
- Something To Look Forward To
- Soul Redemption
- The First Month
- The Secret of the New Moon
- The Torah Starts Here
- What Is Freedom?
- When all is said and done
- Why An Exodus?
- Yesterday - Slaves, and Today?
- A Table in the Wilderness
- A Time to Sing
- Better to Be the Pursued Than the Pursuer
- Bitter + Bitter = Sweet
- Discovering Hashem
- Every Good Deed Rewarded
- Hashem Tests Hearts
- It's Raining Bread!
- Song of Truth
- The Bread of Bitachon
- The Land of the Living
- The Test
- The Torah’s Answer
- The Two Loaves
- What He Really Wants
- What Is It?
- What We Take for Granted
- Why Are You Praying?
- A New World
- An Altar in Eretz Yisrael
- Chosen People
- G-d Cares
- How Many Torahs are There Anyway?
- In Search of the Truth
- It Will Be Good For You
- It’s All in the Details
- Mistakes to Be Proud Of
- Not for a Prize
- Parshas Yisro
- Preparing to Receive The Torah
- Standing on One Foot
- The Chosen
- The Misplaced Letter
- Torah from Heaven
- Two Aspects
- Two Types of Perfection
- What Do You Fear?
- What Does It Take to Change?
- When the Soul Supply Ends...
- Whose Torah?
- A Divine Law
- A Higher Standard
- A Right for Reasons
- A Ton of Bricks or One Brick Worth a Ton?
- Are Your Eyes Open?
- Forever Free
- Free At Last!
- Laws and Attitudes
- Might Through Justice
- No Favorites
- Number Seven
- Pleasant Rebuke
- Six vs. Seven
- The Invisible Heart
- The Two Sabbaths
- This Is Also Torah
- Torah That Keeps on Giving
- Uplifted
- Why? Because I'm Your Father - That's Why!
- A Home for Us
- A Place for Holiness
- A Tabernacle in Your Heart
- Bet Hamikdash, Shabbat & Torah
- Build a "Cottage" for Hashem
- Do You Measure Up?
- Exchange Sacrifices for Torah Learning
- Feeling Inspired
- Give and Take
- Leave Egypt, Build Mishkan
- Make a Home for G-d
- Make It Yours
- Studying the Mishkan
- Symbols
- The Cure Before the Malady
- The Details Justify the Ends
- The Meaning of the Mishkan
- The Secret of the Mishkan
- The Third Leg
- The World in Miniature
- To Rest His Presence
- Vows in a Time of Distress
- Battle the Amalek Within
- Clothes of Royalty
- Garment Atonement
- Garments of the Kohen Gadol
- How Humble Should You Be?
- Kohen Gadol
- Make Yourself at Home!
- Moshe Unmentioned
- Moshe’s Oil
- Nameless
- Of Olive Oil and Menorahs
- Oil and Water
- Pure Wisdom
- The Amalek Within Us
- The Goodness Within
- The Inner Amalek
- The Missing Pillar
- The Wanderer
- Two Types of Giving
- Where is Moshe Rabbeinu?
- Where's Moshe?
- Why Not Celebrate Our Hero's Birthdays?
- "Washing the Workweek Away – Part II"
- A Stiff-Necked People
- Believing vs. Knowing
- Direct Supervision
- Don’t Awaken Judgment
- Equal Halves
- Every Jew is a Spark
- Exalted
- Fulfill Your Potential
- Get It Direct
- Heads Up!
- How to Pray
- How to Remember
- Passing Over
- Paying Our Debts
- Personal Covenant
- Pipe Dreams
- Raise Me Up
- Shabbat in Speech, Thought & Action
- The Debt
- The Holiness of Shabbat
- The Little Purim
- The Right Order
- Two Types of Shabbat
- Wealth as a Redemption
- A Face Lit Up
- A Home for Hashem
- A New Type of Year
- Achieving Greatness
- “Shabbat Shalom”
- Enough!
- From Engagement to Marriage
- Lessons from the Keruvim
- Mishkan Lights, Shabbos Lights, Pesach Lights
- Of Clouds and Rainbows
- Parshios Vayakhel-Pekudei
- Shabbat, Torah
- Shabbat: Just in Time
- Take A Break
- Take an Accounting
- The City of the Strong
- The Culmination of the Exodus
- The Light of Shabbat
- Topsy-turvy
- Try! But not too hard.
- What Kind of Rest?
- An Accounting
- Degrees of Revelation
- Everyone Has a Part
- Of Clouds and Fires
- Path Through the Dark Clouds
- Taking an Accounting
- The Mishkan And The Mikdash
- The Source of Holiness
Vayikra
- A Deeper Appreciation
- A Mystery
- Behind the Scenes
- Do not Glorify Yourself
- From the Burning Bush to the Ohel Mo’ed
- He Loves Us!
- It Could Have Been Me
- Making Sacrifices
- Making Sacrifices Meaningful
- Measuring Up
- Not the First and Not the Last
- Of Places, People and Times
- Spiritual Weaklings
- Sprinkled With Wisdom
- Stolen Offerings
- The Call
- The Sinner is the Real Sacrifice
- The Torah of the Kohanim
- Unifying Creations
- What Is Wisdom?
- A Low-Key Miracle
- Bringing Close
- Burnt-Offerings Building Yerushalayim
- Eternal Lessons
- First Things First
- How Do We Pray?
- Just Think!
- Light and Joy
- No Shortcuts
- Renewable Joy
- Studying the Sacrifices
- Sweet Smelling Bread
- Sweet Suffering
- Thanks for What?
- Thanksgiving
- The Great Shabbat
- The story of Adam and adam
- Virtual Sacrifices
- Why are you asleep?
- "Meat, Wine and Bread"
- Cleave to Your Friends
- Do Good!
- Do What's Right
- Feel the Mitzvah
- How Can We Repay Hashem?
- In the Right Time
- Inspiration Through Commandments
- Know Your Place
- Know Your Strengths
- Minor Greatness
- So Close, Yet So Far
- The Plan
- Things We Don't Know
- To Live As A Jew
- Two Dedications in One
- We are Toddlers Before Hashem
- Why Kosher?
- Will G-d Approve?
- Wolf vs. Fox
- A Shabbos Bris
- Acquiring Torah
- Are We Better than a Gnat?
- “How I See Myself”
- Feeling Pure
- First or Last
- It’s Not a Punishment!
- Keeping Our Covenant
- More than Scratching the Surface
- No Free Lunch
- Parshios Tazria-Metzorah
- Pay Now, Gain Later
- Pleasure vs. Affliction
- Silver Lining
- Spiritual Connection and Actual Observance
- Strengthening the Fortifications
- The Covenant
- The End, or the Means to an End
- The Footsteps of Mashiach
- The Power of Speech
- The Torah's Ups and Downs
- Why We Count
- All Alone
- All Together
- Breaking Free
- Division of Fathers and Sons
- Fathers and Sons
- Hidden Messages and Hidden Treasures
- Not Too Far
- Speech is the Essence of Man
- The Holy Land
- Aaron's Unlimited Access
- All You Need Is Love
- Becoming Holy
- Bread in Your Basket, but Not in Your Soul
- Children of the King
- Habits
- Holiness - Served Fresh
- In the Sanctuary
- Iyar: A Month of Light
- Jewish Character
- Live It!
- Not Just for Studying
- Risk Reduction
- Separate and Pure
- The Four Lives
- The Power of a Heartfelt Prayer
- The Real Sanctuary
- Too Familiar
- Where Are Middot?
- Without A Backup Plan
- Be Holy!
- Brotherly Love
- I am his Hashem, too
- Make Your Parents and Teachers Proud
- Parshas Kedoshim
- Preparing to Enter the Covenant
- The Omer: Only the Beginning
- There's Holy, and There's Holy
- A Holiday Missing?
- A New House
- An Eternal Covenant
- Building A Home
- Consider the Consequences
- Criticizing the Craftsman
- Designating Time
- Do You Know Your Own Power
- Exempt, But ...
- Four Types of Jews
- Hashem’s People – Hashem’s Festivals
- Honor Yourself
- Kiddush Hashem
- Like Rabbi Shimon
- Make your teachers proud!
- MakeTime
- Pure Words
- Second Chances
- The Consequences of Anger
- The Danger of Anger
- The Parashah That Has Everything
- Two-Part Sins
- Why Shabbat?
- Your Honor!
- Concealed Strength
- Do We Need Doctors?
- Emancipation
- Humble From Beginning to End
- It's All in the Preparation
- It’s the Thought That Counts!
- Plant AND Harvest
- Planting Without Picking
- Seven Pillars
- Seven Years of Faith
- Sevens
- She Builds With Wisdom
- Shemittah and the Articles of Faith
- Shemittah and Torah: From Sinai
- The Hidden Light
- This Land is My Land? Your Land?
- Walk, Don't Run
- What Makes the Land Holy
- Whose Land Is It Anyway?
- Whose Land?
- Why Are There Five Books in the Torah?
- Why Rest?
- Why Shemittah?
- A Cruel Reaction
- Book Ends
- Cruel to Oneself
- Days of Preparation
- Earn an ‘A’ for Effort
- Laws of the Land
- Parshas Bechukosai
- The Month Has Arrived
- Toil in Torah as an End In Itself
- Where’s the Reward?
Bamidbar
- "I Love Hashem More Than You"
- All In the Family
- Bamidbar Before Shavuos
- But Who's Counting?
- Children Guarantee
- Count Us In!
- Déjà vu in the Desert
- Details Matter
- Everyone Counts
- Fire, Water, and the Desert
- Going to the House of Hashem
- In and Around
- In the Wilderness
- Look both ways
- Love Counts
- Of Trees, Men, and Receiving the Torah
- Our Family, Our Torah
- The Guarantors
- The Teacher Class
- Who Can Guarantee It?
- Whose Torah?
- An Amazing Commitment
- Be Committed
- Behold Your Teacher!
- Blessings from Zion
- Change is "Wonder"ful!
- How Much Do You Love the Torah?
- If not for the Torah . . .
- Impressive!
- In the Wilderness
- It's a Wonder
- Leaders
- Lines of Lineage
- More Precious Than Pearls
- Ode to Joy
- Pursue Positive or Sidestep Sin
- That’s Impressive!
- The Longest Parashah
- The Service of Service
- To Drink or Not to Drink?
- Ups and Downs
- Who's On First?
- Wonder of Wonders
- Blowing Trumpets
- Brackets
- Face to Face
- Is Silence Golden?
- Making the Torah Great(er)
- Miriam's Fate
- Moshe had Difficulty Remembering
- On the Road Again . . . Or, Still!
- Our Eyes and Ears
- Questions Encouraged!
- Raising the Lights
- Remember!
- Spiritual Healing
- The Eternal Light
- The Father of Prophets
- The Light of the Righteous
- The Missing "So"
- The Seven Books of Moses
- The Three Menorah Lightings
- The Wise Son & the Eruv
- Three Sides of the Menorah
- To the Letter!
- Transition
- Carrying as Work
- Incompatible
- Integrating Holiness
- It All Depends Why
- Nothing Special, But So Special!
- On a Ladder
- Parshas Shlach
- Permission to Confuse
- Physical Fruit, or Spiritual?
- Salvation is Hashem
- Send Spies, If You Please...
- Shabbat, Spies and Wood-Gatherers
- Start Small!
- The Best Merchandise
- The Common Thread
- The Land's Blessing
- The Spies and the Mitzvah of Challah
- The Spies and Yerushalayim
- The Strategy
- We Shall Ascend!
- We Will Do or We Will Spy
- What is Work?
- Words are Not Enough
- A Time for Faith
- Bad Attitude
- Can We Know Everything?
- Carry or Carried
- Chosen
- Enduring Disputes
- Faith-full Morning
- For the Sake of Heaven . . . Or Not?
- Get a Rebbe
- It's That Important
- Know Your Place
- Korach: Don't Fight
- Parshas Korach
- Parts In Harmony
- Peace!
- The Bar on the Door
- The Bigger Picture
- To Be a King
- Up Close and Personal
- Vessel of Peace
- Where the Humble Stand
- Which Came First?
- Who Would You Choose?
- "Knock Yourself Out"
- A Matter of Taste
- A New Day
- An Idle Mind...
- Bar Kochva, Rabbi Akiva, and Redemption
- Bilam's Big Appetite
- Closer to the Source
- Deep Waters
- It’s Real
- Moshe's Book and Bilam's Book
- Pillar of Prayer
- Pro-Choice
- Staff Review
- Tastes of the Mitzvos
- The Uncursables
- To Be Wise
- Who Doesn’t Love Peace?
- Who is Wise?
- Why Didn't Moshe Enter Canaan?
- A Great Responsibility
- A Question Brings Hope
- Balak: Can You See It?
- Be Whole
- Bilam: A Perfect Tzadik?
- Bil’am’s Big Blunder
- Days
- Making the Most of Our Days
- Parshas Balak
- Pray for the 'Right' Person
- Recognizing Prophets
- Tents Where Torah is Studied
- The Power of a Mitzvah
- The Power of Speech
- The Rock
- The Segulah
- The Segulot of Mitzvot
- A Hint of Days to Come
- And He Transmitted It to Yehoshua
- Another Mission
- Be Like a Kohen and Express Your Feelings
- Being and Speaking Shalom
- Brit Shalom, Shabbat Shalom
- For Whose Sake?
- Forever a Leader
- Fundamentals of Zealousness
- G-d's Food
- Going Home to a New House
- Hot Blooded Experience
- Investment Advice
- No Compromising with the Yetzer Hara!
- Pinchas & The Three Weeks
- Pursue G-d
- Return on Investment
- Shalom
- Temperament of a Kohen
- The Feeling that Unites
- Truth, Kindness, and Harmony
- Your Mission
- A Personal Torah?
- Can You Be Trusted?
- Clear Vision
- Crossover Holiness
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- His Way is the Right Way
- It Must Have Been a Miracle!
- Journey to Dveikut
- On the Road Again (to Repentance)
- Parshas Matos
- Power of Prayer
- Setbacks and Comebacks
- Step-by-Step
- The Daughters of Tzlofchad
- The Number Forty-Two
- The Real Torah
- This Is The Word
- Thoughtful Speech
- True Wealth
- What’s In Your Food?
- Wisdom, Understanding, Fear & Awe
- A New Chapter
- Be A Jew Away From Home
- The Geography of the Exodus
Devarim
- A Brighter Tomorrow
- A Higher Purpose
- A Wise Rebuke
- Be Happy (Even Now)!
- Before You Rebuke
- By The Rivers of Babylon...
- Don't Just Scratch the Surface
- If only . . .
- In Other Words
- Learning How to Cry
- Look Deeper
- Moshe Rabbeinu's Love
- Rebuking 101
- Review
- So Much to Say
- Table of Contents
- The Foundation of Piety
- The Purpose of the Fifth Book
- The Secret to Rebuke
- The Torah for Eretz Yisrael
- A Way of Life
- Are We Consoled?
- Cling to Hashem
- Comfort My People
- How Can We Be Comforted?
- Humble, Yet Proud
- It’s free!
- Loving G-d
- Making Connections
- Moshe's Prayers (and Ours)
- Nation Destined for Greatness
- The Double Nation
- The Engine
- The Good, the Bad and the Beloved
- The Wisdom in Our Calendar
- The Wisdom in the Calendar
- Twice the Responsibility
- Two Ways
- What Makes Us Tick?
- What Moshe Wanted
- Why Do We Believe?
- A Mother’s Love
- Always a Parent
- Always in Season
- Big Deal!
- Don't Tread on Me!
- Emulate G-d, Again and Again!
- Hashem Does Not Need Our Mitzvos
- Hashem Is Always Watching!
- In G-d We Trust
- Is It a Miracle?
- Receipt of the Key
- Steps on a Ladder
- The Beauty of Dependence
- The Good Land
- The Land of “Yisrael”
- The Land of Israel
- Ticket to Olam Haba
- Walk Humbly
- What Do You Mean You Forgot?!
- What Were They Thinking?
- What’s in a Blessing?
- A Fence of Thorns
- Accounting
- Ashrei!
- Brothers and Teachers
- Choose Life!
- Curse of Freedom
- Forgetfulness
- How Good Is Good Enough?
- Let's Stick Together
- Life Choices
- No Exceptions
- No Middle Road
- One for All!
- Open Your Heart, and Your Hand
- Parashat Re
- Parashat Reeh
- Searching
- Serve Hashem "His" Way
- The Highest Form of Praise
- The Preparations Begin
- The Vineyard
- Today’s Choice
- Understand and Remember
- What Holds Up the World
- You Make The Difference!
- Deceitful Prayer
- Don’t Be a Stranger
- Every Month Should Be Elul
- Judge Below
- Judges over Ourselves
- Judges, Kings, Workers & Scholars
- Judging
- Learning from the Ant
- Look Before You Leap
- Opening Gates
- Pick Your Judge
- The Battle Is Joined
- The Law and Beyond
- Trial Preparation
- Tzeddek, Truth, and Charity
- War and Leadership
- We Are the Kings Children
- What is Elul?
- Which Gates Will You Open?
- Wisdom from an Ant
- A Right to Repent?
- Brit Milah and the Mother Bird
- Cause and Effect
- Compassion
- Different Courts, Different Rules
- Future Judgement
- Hide from Yourself
- How to Win a War
- Military Battles and Elul’s Battles
- My Enemy, My Brother
- Not So Secret Messages
- Parshas Ki Seitzei
- Parshas Ki Seitzei: Volume 26, No. 44
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Reward and Punishment
- Stay Warm
- The Battle to Return
- The Beautiful Accompaniment
- The False Measures Within Us
- The War Within
- This Means War!
- What Hashem Wants
- You're Being Followed by Mitzvos...
- A Right to Repent? - Part 2
- Even Today!
- Everyone Counts!
- First Fruits
- G-d Never Forgets
- Humility and Fruit
- In the Footsteps of G-d
- Is Teshuva Really Necessary this Year?
- Parshas Ki Savo
- Parshat Ki Tavo
- Personal and Communal Growth
- The Best Revenge
- The Whole Story
- Today!
- Walk This Way
- With Joy!
- You Can Make A Difference
- You Count!
- You Gotta Believe (in Yourself)!
- A New Way to Learn
- A Poor Man's Prayer
- As I See Fit?
- Even Hashem Repents
- Farewell to the Shemittah!
- He Will Return
- Let the Light In!
- Not Hiding, But Seek
- Parshios Netzavim & Vayeilech
- Reflecting Back on Shemittah
- Return
- The Gift of Scholarship
- The Hidden Day
- The Secret of Teshuvah
- The Three Books
- Things That Are Hidden
- To Fear or Not to Fear
- Today!
- Today! (Again)
- Why Is Rosh Hashanah Hiding?
- Falsehood Has No Legs
- G-d's Concealment
- Getting to Teshuvah
- Hide and Seek
- Prayer with Legs to Stand On
- Prayer’s Two Legs
- The Task At Hand
- Time for Teshuvah
- When G-d Hides
- A Song and Its Allusions
- A Special Place
- Heaven and Earth
- How Does Teshuvah Work?
- Keeping Yom Kippur With Us
- Live Like Royalty
- Our National Anthem
- Spiritual Climates
- The Higher We Rise . . .
- The Kindness of Hashem
- The Right Choice
- The Roadmap of History
- To Crown a King
- Torah Is for Everyone
- True Foundation
- Volume 25, No. 52
- Free at Last!
- Chanukah
- A New Perspective
- A Torah Perspective
- Be Patient!
- Build with Your Dreams
- Chanaukah Lights
- Chanukah Vs. Purim
- Chanukah and Mechiras Yosef: The Hidden Connection
- Darkness and Light
- Dreaming
- For Every Detail
- Good and Bad Company
- Notice the Small Things!
- Thanks for What?
- The Lost Jewel
- The Missing Jewel
- The Right Time for Rain
- Things Acquired With Pain
- Yehuda, Yosef and Chanukah
- Free at Last!
- Hashem Is Here
- Live Like Royalty
- Love Out of Fear
- Parshat Ki Tavo
- Spiritual Climates
- The Hidden Day
- The Judgment
- Things That Are Hidden
- To Crown a King
- Trial Preparation
- Behind the Scenes
- Feeling Inspired
- Joy That Lasts
- Light and Joy
- Pure Wisdom
- The Amalek Within Us
- The Missing Pillar
- The Wanderer
- Breaking Free
- Burnt-Offerings Building Yerushalayim
- Fathers and Sons
- No Shortcuts
- Sweet Smelling Bread
- Thanksgiving
- Count Us In!
- Difference of Night and Day
- Everyone Counts
- Going to the House of Hashem
- In the Wilderness
- It’s the Time…
- Of Trees, Men, and Receiving the Torah
- Prophecy Requires Preparation
- The Month Has Arrived
- The Teacher Class
- Whose Torah?
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