March 2022

Shmuel I 15:2 This week’s haftorah, read in conjunction with Parshas Zachor, opens with Hashem’s command to Shaul Hamelech to annihilate the nation of Amalek.… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Zachor

With the start of the Book of Vayikra (Leviticus), the Torah continues the narrative of mitzvos (Divine commands), focusing on the animal offerings that were… Read More »Uncommon Courtesy

The process of sinning and repenting ascends to a different level in this week’s portion. In addition to the regular steps of penitence, the Torah… Read More »Trickle Down Theory

Friday Night IT IS AMAZING how so much can come down to something so little. As is known, in the first word of Sefer Vayikra… Read More »Aleph

BS”D Volume 36, No. 24 9 Adar II 5782 March 12, 2022 Sponsored by Howard and Rosanne Benn in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary… Read More »A Mystery

This week we welcome in the Jewish month of Adar—in actuality, Adar II, as a leap year on the Jewish calendar involves a full extra… Read More »What Ukrainian Victims Can Teach Us About Happiness

And Moshe did; according to all that HASHEM had commanded him, so he did. It came to pass in the first month, in the second… Read More »The Job of the Jews

Hallel The Gemara in Pesachim (117a) describes Hallel. The Neviim decreed that Hallel be said at Yom Tov and at a time that the Jews… Read More »The Shir — Hallel at Purim and Pesach

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #231, Making a Siyum. Good… Read More »We Toil and Receive Reward — For the Toil!

The basic lesson in this week’s Torah reading is accountability. God demands from Moshe and the others who formulated and created the Tabernacle in the… Read More »Why Every Jew Should Become an Accountant