August 2021

“And Yaakov said to them, “Brothers, where are you from?” (Bereshith 29:4) Yaakov’s reference to the shepherds of Charan as “brothers” was not considered sheker,… Read More »Relatively Speaking

Friday Night August 23 and 30, 8:30 pm Israel time: In Advance Of The Ten Days, two sessions on rising to the task between Rosh… Read More »Torah Consistency

…Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., ‘one of a wide soul’), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 7(c) – The Power of the Human Eye, Part II

The traditional naming of the five books and the weekly readings in the Torah is done by simply using the first uncommon word of the… Read More »The Power of a Bribe

If a matter eludes you in judgment, between blood and blood, between judgment and judgment, or between lesion and lesion, words of dispute in your… Read More »We Are Sanctified

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1258 – Brachos on the… Read More »Discharged from Service for Talking While Donning Tefillin?!

Judges and officers you shall appoint in all your cities.[2] A medrash[3] tells us not to disparage din, because it is one of the three… Read More »The Enforcers

I would once again like to apologize for not having written the past few weeks. I was running a boys sleep-a-way camp and my family… Read More »Express Yourself

“You shall observe the festival of Sukkos…Judges and officers you shall appoint…” (16:13,18) Although Ezra the Scribe divided the Torah into the weekly portions as… Read More »In The Shadow Of Hashem

Yeshaya 51:12 This week’s haftorah reveals to us another impressive dimension of our final redemption. The haftorah begins with the prophet Yeshaya representing Hashem and… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Shoftim