June 2022

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1208 – Going to Daven… Read More »Sipur and Dibur in Saying Lashon HaRah

Send, for yourself, men and let them spy out the Land[2] Rashi explains the strange hesitation in lecha/for yourself: “I am not commanding you to… Read More »How To Guarantee Failure In Fighting The Yetzer Hora

BS”D Volume 36, No. 37 26 Sivan 5782 June 25, 2022 Sponsored by Zev and Marlene Teichman on the yahrzeit of her father, Louis Leonard… Read More »What is Work?

We are taught by a Mishnah in Avot that the Jewish people, as represented by the generation of the Sinai desert, tested the Lord 10… Read More »A Fragile Faith

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of Torah. Know what to answer a heretic. Know before Whom you toil. And faithful is your… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 19: Answering the Heretic

This week we read the parsha of Shlach. “Shlach l’cha anashim vayasuru es Eretz Canaan {Send forth men who will spy out the Land of… Read More »Dangerous Honor

The Mitzvah: Tzitzis are to be attached to the fringes of a four-cornered garment. Each fringe consists of eight white strings (originally the eighth was… Read More »Tzitzis: On the Fringe

“The Children of Israel were in the Wilderness…”(15:32) The Torah relates that a person who was found gathering sticks on Shabbos, a capitol offense, was… Read More »Sticks And Stones

The vast Jewish encampment stands at the edge of the desert on the threshold of Canaan. It is a time of incredible excitement. After centuries… Read More »Hard Choices

“G-d said to Moshe saying, ‘Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them that they shall make themselves tzitzis on the corners of… Read More »Gentle Encouragement