Yeshaya 40:1 This week’s haftorah introduces a special series of haftorah readings related to our final redemption. In this opening one the prophet Yeshaya delivers… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Vaeschanan – Nachamu
Hillel and Shammai received the transmission from them [the previous generation of scholars, of Mishna 10]. Hillel said: Be of the students of Aaron, loving… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 12: Aaron vs. Moses
This Week’s RRR (Relevant Religious Reference): “… Love your Neighbor like yourself… ” – Genesis, 25:30 This Week’s SSC(Suitable Secular Citation): ” You the… Read More »You the Man; No, You the Man
It is said with a combination of passionate joy and admiring wonder. As the Torah is raised for all to see, the congregants point to… Read More »Killer Torah
Although our teacher Moshe figuratively tears down the gates of Heaven with his prayers and supplications to be allowed to enter the land of Israel,… Read More »Fatalism and Acceptance
Friday Night TORAH GLADDENS THE heart, so we are limited when it comes to learning Torah on Tisha B’Av, especially when it comes to gemora.… Read More »Tisha B’Av Lessons
“A fence for wisdom is silence” (Pirkei Avos 3:17). Therefore, one should not hurry to respond and not speak excessively. One should teach his students… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 5 – The Torah Speaks for Itself
Avtalyon said: Sages, be careful with your words lest you deserve to be exiled and are exiled to a place of bad waters. The students… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 11: Judaism vs. Western Civilization
This last oration of our teacher Moshe reviews the occurrences in history of the Jewish people after their miraculous Exodus from Egypt. The words of… Read More »Book 5, Take 2
Thus says HASHEM: Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, nor the strong man boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast… Read More »Where Are You?