August 2021

This week we read Parshas Ki Savo. “And it will be ‘ki savo’ {when you will come} to the land that Hashem, your G-d, has… Read More »All That We Have is From Hashem

Today. It’s a powerful word. It is used by doctors to define the exact moment their patients are to stop over-indulging, smoking, and drinking. It… Read More »The Today Show

Shammai said, make your Torah study fixed, say little and do much, and receive everyone with a cheerful countenance. Last week we discussed Shammai’s first… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 15(b): Actions – Not Words

Friday Night ABOUT FORTY YEARS ago I had what was to be my first of four hernia operations. In those days it was still treated… Read More »Waking Up

…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(d) – The Pain of Inexistence, Part I

To give to others is the best way to show you love them. Indeed, the Hebrew word “Ahava – Love” is a derivative of the… Read More »A Tap on the Shoulder

If a man has a wayward and rebellious son, who does not listen to his father or his mother, and they chasten him, and [he… Read More »The Same Voice

The Torah speaks of making war upon one’s enemy. Who is this enemy? The simple explanation is that it is a physical or national enemy… Read More »“We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us”

This week we read the parsha of Ki Seitzei. I would like to apologize for the lack of ‘Insights’ during the past weeks. Traveling with… Read More »Thanks to Egypt

BS”D Volume 35, No. 44 13 Elul 5781 August 21, 2021 Sponsored by Irving and Arline Katz on the yahrzeit of her father Moshe Aharon… Read More »How to Win a War