October 2020

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1176 – Chupa: Inside or… Read More »Midrashim Speak to Us in Code

In several places in our parshah, Rashi sees discontinuity in the process of Creation. Some things begin, pause, and are continued later. The waters that… Read More »Creation, Interrupted

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: 33(b) – Does Israel Know Better? Part II

Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) explains that Adom’s eating of the forbidden fruit brought about a confusion between good and bad. This state remained until… Read More »Creation and the Tikun of Torah

BS”D Volume 35, No. 1 29 Tishrei 5781 October 17, 2020 Sponsored by the Parness family in memory of Anna Parness a”h Martin and Michelle… Read More »The Kindness in Creation

This week’s opening parsha of the Torah can be viewed as having bookends. There are two main characters in the story of humanity that are… Read More »Make a Lasting Impact!

This week I will seriously deviate from my normal format. This Shabbos my third son, Aharon Aryeh, is becoming bar mitzvah {when a young Jewish… Read More »Knowing This World and Using it Well

“…for on the day you eat of it, you shall surely die” (2:17) Adam is warned that on the day he eats from the Tree… Read More »The Eternal Embrace

The silly people in the following story make five mistakes as they try to make havdala. Can you find them? Can you think of three… Read More »Havdala: The Great Separation

I’m sure the question has occurred to many of you: Haven’t we been through the ritual of concluding the Torah and beginning again from Breishis… Read More »Reflections, Dissections and Connections