August 2021

Yeshaya 54:11   This week’s haftorah is directed towards Zion displaying her illustrious future in the time of Mashiach. The haftorah begins with the disturbing… Read More »Parshas Reeh

You are children of HASHEM, your G-d. You shall neither cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. For you are… Read More »The Most Uplifting Experience

BS”D Volume 35, No. 42 29 Av 5781 August 7, 2021 Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of his father Harav Yitzchak ben… Read More »A Fence of Thorns

SHMUEL1, 20:18   This week we read a special Haftora portion in light of the fact that this Shabbos is Erev Rosh Chodesh. This particular… Read More »Haftorah Commentary – Day Before Rosh Chodesh

Parshas “R’ay” begins with the Moshe saying: “R’ay anochi nosain lifnaichem ha’yom b’racha u’klalah – See that I place before you today a blessing and… Read More »Exchanging Gold for Copper

“…you shall not send him empty-handed; you shall adorn him with gifts…”(15:13,14) After six years of servitude, the Torah requires that the Jewish slave be… Read More »Restoring Dignity

Since the dawn of human history, mankind has faced, in one guise or another, the same temptations that confronted the very first man and woman,… Read More »Fall – and get back up!

This week the Torah teaches us the laws of ma’aser sheni. Ma’aser sheni constitutes a tithe in which the apportioned produce is consumed by the… Read More »Joy of Shlepping

Stripping away all the details that oftentimes clutter our lives, we can agree that the type of life that we live is pretty much dependent… Read More »Making Choices

He [Hillel] used to say, one who seeks a name loses his name, one who does not increase [his knowledge] decreases it (or: will perish),… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 13(b): The Challenge of Life – Part II