August 2021

Friday Night IMAGINE HIKING OUT in the wilderness and coming across a small puddle. Where did the water come from? Intrigued, you look more closely… Read More »In Plain Sight

Look down from Your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given to us, as You… Read More »Beyond Words

The opening words of this week’s Torah reading have been repeated often throughout the entire discourse by Moshe with the Jewish people, which constitutes the… Read More »When We Come, Not If

This week’s reading begins with the Commandment of Bikkurim, bringing the first fruits to the Holy Temple, and other gifts that were given to the… Read More »First Fruits Forever

…Neither should a person be one prone to arguments, nor one obsessed with jealousy or obsessed with lust, nor a pursuer of honor. Likewise did… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 7(e) – The Pain of Inexistence, Part II

Look down from Your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given to us, as You… Read More »Beyond Words

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1260 Mezzuzah – Case of… Read More »Vidui for What Could Have Been and Should Have Been

The opening words of this week’s Torah reading have been repeated often throughout the entire discourse by Moshe with the Jewish people, which constitutes the… Read More »When We Come, Not If

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1260 Mezzuzah – Case of… Read More »Vidui for What Could Have Been and Should Have Been

This week we read the parsha of Ki Savo. It begins with two commandments applicable to when Bnei Yisroel will dwell in the Land of… Read More »Influencing Others