These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1220 – Forgetting Mashiv HaRuach… Read More »The Sun Pioneers Gevurah – Self Control
Friday Night RASHI POINTS OUT that the word “bereishis” is not the correct form of the word for the context. If you want to say… Read More »The Great Opportunity
The Torah in this week’s opening reading begins with a description of the generations of human beings – the narrative of human life and civilization.… Read More »The Road to Paradise
As an introduction, the Rambam’s fourth chapter is devoted almost entirely to health issues. Since, as he stated at the end of his third chapter,… Read More »Chapter 4, Laws 1-8 – Health Issues, Part I
Rabbi Shimon ben (son of) Gamliel said: On three things does the world endure: justice, truth and peace, as the verse states, “Truth and [judgments… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 18(a): Jew vs. Gentile in the Eyes of the Torah – Part I
Ha’azinu 12 Tishrei 5782 September 18, 2021 Sponsored by Faith Ginsburg on the yahrzeit of her grandfather, William Lavin Avraham Zev ben Raphael a”h (15… Read More »The Higher We Rise . . .
One who accustoms himself to live in a healthy manner (namely, who engages in physical activities only to the degree which is medically beneficial as… Read More »Chapter 3, Law 3 – In All Your Ways Know Him
In Memory of my dear friend and chavrusa, Efraim Hirsch, who suffered every type of yesurim Teshuva and the Justice System In Mesilas Yesharim, the… Read More »Yom Kippur: Teshuva and the Justice System
Shimon his son [the son of Rabban Gamliel of the previous mishna] said: All my life I have been raised among the Sages, and I… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 17: Expressions of the Soul
These last chapters of the Torah, culminating in this week’s reading, are all a very serious and have an almost fearsome quality and tone. Heaven… Read More »A Covenant with Nature