These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: # 1177 – Teaching Torah… Read More »The Path to Decadence Begins Very Subtly
BS”D Volume 35, No. 2 6 Marcheshvan 5781 October 24, 2020 Sponsored by Mrs. Esther Liberman and family in memory of husband and father Yaakov… Read More »But Will You Save Others?
Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words. (Breishis 11:1) one language: Loshon HaKodesh. The Holy Tongue – Rashi This is quite… Read More »Something’s Lost in the Translation
For forty days and forty nights, the Great Flood seethed over the surface of the earth, sweeping it clean of the corruption that had polluted… Read More »The Sign of the Olive
“These are the offspring of Noah – Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generation; Noah walked with G-d.” (Beraishis/Genesis 6:9) Why does Noah’s… Read More »Making Something of Nothing
This week we read the parsha of Noach. A mere ten generations after creation, the world had reached a state of depravity that necessitated its… Read More »What a Deal!
This class is dedicated by Ephraim Sobol in loving memory of his father, Shlomo Mordechai ben Yaakov a”h. The Mitzvah: The commandment of p’ru u’revu,… Read More »Procreation: Creating Worlds
“…’Come, let us make bricks and burn them in fire.’ And the brick served them as stone, and the lime served them as mortar.” (11:3)… Read More »People In Stone Houses Shouldn’t Cast Bricks
Yeshaya 54 This week’s haftorah projects the glorious future of the Jewish people and describes the splendor of Jerusalem in breathtaking dimensions. In the midst… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Noach
* This Week’s RRR (Relevant Religious Reference): “If I’m not for myself, who will be for me? And if I’m (only) for myself, what am… Read More »“Live & Let Live?”