These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape 820 — K’rias Shemah… Read More »The Best Things in Life Are Different When They Come for Free
How can I curse whom G-d has not cursed, and how can I invoke wrath if HASHEM has not been angered? For from their beginning,… Read More »We Dwell Alone… (With HASHEM)
BS”D Volume 35, No. 36 16 Tammuz 5781 June 26, 2021 Sponsored by Mrs. Rochelle Dimont and family, on the yahrzeit of grandfather and great-grandfather… Read More »The Power of Speech
How can I curse, what G-d has not cursed?…For from its origins I see it, rock-like. From high places I see it.[2] Three blessings constitute… Read More »Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion
Micha 5:6 This week’s haftorah reveals to us Hashem’s incredible love for His people. The prophet Micha opens by comparing the Jewish nation to a… Read More »Haftora Commentary Parshas Balak
The Talmud incisively comments that it is not the mouse that is a thief,but, rather, it is the hole in the wall that allows the… Read More »Balak’s Blind Hatred
Yehuda ben (son of) Tabbai and Shimon ben Shatach received the transmission from them [the previous generation of scholars, listed in Mishna 6]. Yehuda ben… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 8: Shaping Minds
How we admire people who combine great wealth with great social consciousness, who not only take from society but give something back as well. We… Read More »The Epitome of Righteousness
“And G-d said to Balaam ‘Do not go with them [the emissaries of Balak] and do not curse [the nation of Israel] for it is… Read More »Uncommon Courtesy
We are all fascinated by inanimate or animal objects that speak. The ’60s had TV viewers kvelling over talking horses, even talking cars. And an… Read More »Sorry for Nothing