This dvar Torah was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape #458 – Giving Tochacha:… Read More »The Mitzvah To ‘Be Holy’ Was Given in a Mass Gathering
You shall love your fellow as yourself[2] Chief among principles is that a person should not live a simple, uncomplicated life. Too many simply go… Read More »Where Waze Won’t Look For Gehinom
…and you should love your neighbor as yourself… (Vayikra 19:18) This one line here is the Great -General Principle in the Torah, according to Rabbi… Read More »The Clock is Ticking
BS”D Volume 36, No. 30 6 Iyar 5782 May 7, 2022 In this week’s Parashah, we are commanded to be “Kedoshim.” R’ Yitzchak of Volozhin… Read More »Be Holy!
The story of Rachav is set forth in the Book of Joshua, Chapter Two, takes place approximately forty years after the Exodus from Egypt, when… Read More »Rachav: The Courage to Create a New Reality Part I
QUESTION 14: CALLLING HOME COLLECT WITH A FICTICOUS NAME TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED If a person is going on a trip, and he… Read More »Calling Collect and Shareware
Rabbi Yehoshua said: An evil eye, the evil inclination, and hatred of others (lit., of the creations) remove a person from the world. This mishna… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 16: Baseless Hatred
One of the very well-known commandments that appears in this week’s reading of the Torah is the injunction not to place a stumbling block in… Read More »Advising the Blind
The Mitzvah: The Torah famously instructs “you shall love your fellow as yourself, I am G-d” (Leviticus 19:18). The mitzvah of ahavas Yisrael, love of… Read More »Love Your Neighbor: Who Needs Friends?
“…the two of them shall be put to death…” (20:11) Parshas Kedoshim contains the consequences that befall a person who engages in the prohibited consanguineous… Read More »Understand The Warning