July 2020

Yirmiyahu 1:1 This week begins a series of haftorah readings which reflect the inner feelings of the Jewish people during their final months of the… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Pinchas

Pinchas the son of Elazar the son of Aharon the kohen has turned My anger away from the Children of Israel by his zealously avenging… Read More »Warning! Danger!

The Israelite man who was slain with the Midianite woman was named Zimri ben Salu, prince of a family branch of Shimon.[2] Although we learned… Read More »(Don’t) Name That Rasha

Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: The 48 Ways: 9-11: From Student to Teacher and a Perfect World

BS”D Volume 34, No. 37 19 Tammuz 5780 July 11, 2020 Sponsored by Judy and David Marwick in memory of Abe and Helen Spector a”h… Read More »Your Mission

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: CD #1127 – Tei’ku –… Read More »Never Too Old to Improve

On the 17th of Tamuz the Tablets were broken! (Tractate Taanis) The Tablets and the Broken Tablets rest in the Ark. (Brochos 8) Now it… Read More »A Mistake is Made Holy!

Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: The 48 Ways: 5-8: Exhilarating Fear

Bilaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps God will happen to appear to me, and He will show… Read More »What We DON’T See

BS”D Volume 34, No. 36 12 Tammuz 5780 July 4, 2020 Sponsored by Martin and Michelle Swartz on the yahrzeit (12 Tammuz) of Martin’s grandfather… Read More »Bar Kochva, Rabbi Akiva, and Redemption