June 2021

In Psalms, King David writes that the honor and beauty of a Jewish woman is contained in her unique quality of inwardness. By contrast, today… Read More »Privacy: Is it a Feminine Trait?

QUESTION 81: CLOTHES INTENDED FOR CHARITY As I gained weight, I put aside some clothes to give to charity. I assumed that since the clothes… Read More »Clothes Intended for Charity

“My beloved is like a gazelle or like a young hart; behold he stands behind our wall, he looks in the windows” (Shir Hashirim 2,9).… Read More »Gazing through Windows

And his mother [Rivka] said to him [Yaakov], “Your curse will be on me. Just listen to what I said and go and take [the… Read More »Sticking Up For Mom

Friday Night AS THE EXPRESSION goes, “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.” The story of Bilaam is a classic… Read More »Destructive Hope

Nittai of Arbel said, distance yourself from a bad neighbor, do not befriend a wicked person, and do not despair of punishment. The theme of… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 7: Jewish Ghettos

HASHEM spoke to Moshe and Aaron, saying: “This is the statute (CHOK) of the Torah which HASHEM commanded, saying, “Speak to the Children of Israel… Read More »The Gravity of Gravity

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1167 – “If Hashem Saves… Read More »The Power of One to Purify the Many

BS”D Volume 35, No. 35 9 Tammuz 5781 June 19, 2021 Sponsored by Martin and Michelle Swartz on the yahrzeit (12 Tammuz) of Martin’s grandfather… Read More »A New Day

The fate of the generation that left Egypt and came to the Sinai desert is finally sealed in this week’s Torah reading. Even though we… Read More »Handing Over the Mantle