March 2022

Friday Night WHEN YOU HAVE a problem with your skin, you go to a skin doctor. Unless, of course it was tzara’as, in which case… Read More »Flesh Wound

1. On the influence of the stars upon events 1. G-d instilled yet another factor upon the stars, which is that all of the events experienced… Read More »Chapter 7: The Influence of the Stars – Paragraph 2

QUESTION 10:  It was only 3 minutes before the bus was scheduled to arrive, and I started running towards the only phone near the bus… Read More »Running to a Phone

Last week’s stories imply that answering amen to a bracha is compulsory, and that the consequences are serious if one does not do so. This… Read More »Obligation or Optional

When [Yosef] told [his dream] to his father and brothers, his father scolded him and said to him, “What kind of dream did you have?… Read More »Jealousy

Our previous installment of this class explored the connection between God’s parenting of us, and our own parenting of children. Given this model, we may… Read More »Parenting Lessons from God – The Ultimate Parent, Part 2

And Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, each took his pan, put fire in them, and placed incense upon it, and they brought before HASHEM foreign… Read More »To Say Nothing

All living creatures that exist in our world require nutrition to be able to survive. Human beings, being the most sophisticated of all creatures on… Read More »The Pivotal Power of Kosher

  This dvar Torah was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1245 – The Latest… Read More »An Original Interpretation of “Through Those Near to Me I Will Be Sanctified”

Once upon a time Rachel and Chaya stood at the door of their neighbour’s home. The two sisters had come to visit the Brickstein shiva… Read More »Visiting a Shiva House