May 2021

Bamidbar is known as the Book of Numbers. Though the Hebrew word Bamidbar means in the desert, I assume that the name Numbers was derived… Read More »The Little Things Count

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s CommuterChavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1206 What Bracha on Cheesecake? Is… Read More »The Hidden Message Telegraphed by the Word “Se’oo”

BS”D Volume 35, No. 30 4 Sivan 5781 May 15, 2021 Parashat Bemidbar is nearly always read on the Shabbat preceding Shavuot, the holiday of… Read More »The Teacher Class

Friday Night WE GENERALLY READ Parashas Bamidbar in advance of the holiday of Shavuos. To begin with, Kabbalas Hatorah was a desert experience. We did… Read More »Kabbalas Dignity

If you will go in My decrees and keep My Mitzvos and perform them; then I will provide rains in their time, and the land… Read More »Well Worth the Effort

Those who have physical illnesses taste bitter things as sweet and sweet as bitter. There are likewise ill individuals who hunger for inedible substances such… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 1 – Are We Really Happy?

Antignos of Socho received [the transmission] from Shimon the Righteous. He used to say: Do not be as servants who serve the Master to receive… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 3: Living the Impossible

BS”D Volume 35, No. 29 26 Iyar 5781 May 7, 2021 Sponsored by David and Micheline Peller on the yahrzeit of her father Baruch ben… Read More »This Land is My Land? Your Land?

Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying…when you come into the land that I give you, the land should observe a Shabbos rest for… Read More »The Strength to be Pure

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1160 – The Mahram of… Read More »Cheating is Forbidden — Honesty is the Best Policy as Well