February 2022

…Reuven went and… (Bereshith 35:22) When Rachel died, Yaakov moved his personal effects from Rachel’s tent to that of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah. Reuven considered this… Read More »Lost in Translation

Every weekday has a special song for that particular day. On Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah and other holidays, we are faced with the question of which… Read More »Double Song

QUESTION 4: PHONE WARRANTY I bought a portable phone with a one-year warranty. It broke several times, and each time the company I bought it… Read More »Phone Warranty and Bus Tickets

There is a positive [Torah] obligation to cleave to the wise in order to learn from their deeds, as it states ‘and to Him you… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 2(b) – The Holiness of the Physical, Part II

He [Rabban Yochanan] said to them [his students], ‘Go out and see what is a good way to which a person should cleave.’ R. Eliezer… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 13(a): Thou Shall Not Covet

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1196. Taking a Choleh to… Read More »The Secret of the Kesher Shel Tefillin

They have strayed quickly from the way that I commanded.[2] How quickly? Serving the eigel ha-zahav a mere forty days after the revelation at Sinai… Read More »Kicking the Tires

And all the people stripped themselves of the golden earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron. He took [them] from their… Read More »The Oreo Cookie

BS”D Volume 36, No. 21 18 Adar I 5782 February 19, 2022 Sponsored by Eli, Rachel Adina, Daniel Avraham, Yonatan and Chana Rutstein in honor… Read More »A Stiff-Necked People

The sin of the Golden Calf remains one of the great mysteries in the story of the Jewish people throughout the ages. Flooded with miracles… Read More »This Makes Intelligent People Act Like Fools