February 2022

QUESTION 2: I bought a car that I found has an extended warranty that I can buy from the previous owner. However I bought the… Read More »Questions About Warranty

INTRODUCTION: The following letter submitted to Women in Judaism, is an inspiring expression of the beauty of Jewish ritual and a perfect way to introduce… Read More »A Practical Manual for Lighting Shabbat Candles

The great Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, the Rabbinical Academy of the Sages of Lublin, opened in 1930, between the two world wars. Under the leadership of… Read More »Gifting Without Glory

It is the inherent nature of man (lit., ‘it is the way of a person’s creation’) to be drawn, both in his attitudes and deeds,… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 1 – Of Cave Dwellers and Insulation

“HASHEM spoke to Moshe saying: “Speak to the Children of Israel, and have them take for Me an offering (Teruma); from every person whose heart… Read More »From-Keit

It is interesting to note the choice of verbs used by the Torah, regarding the collection of materials that will be necessary in the building… Read More »Lessons in How to Take

BS”D Volume 36, No. 19 4 Adar I 5782 February 5, 2022 Sponsored by Rochelle Dimont on the yahrzeit of her father-in-law Rabbi Shmuel Elchanan… Read More »Make It Yours

Make an Aron of shitim-wood[2] Apparently puzzled[3] (as Bezalel was!) by the directive to make an Aron before the mishkan that was meant to house… Read More »Hiddenness Is Not Only Divine

Mishna 10 Rabban Yochanan ben (son of) Zakkai had five [primary] students. They were: Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurkenos, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, Rabbi Yossi the… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 10-11(d): Religious Neurotics

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1194 Your Father’s Nussach Or… Read More »Once It’s Your Money, It Is Hard to Part With It