June 2022

There is a verse in this week’s portion which seems to have a misplaced possesive. But on closer analysis every noun and pronoun lend powerful… Read More »For Him the Bell Tolls

Friday Night THE AMAZING THING is not how corrupt mankind can be, but how God built such levels of corruption into man, and puts up… Read More »On The Flipside

In just a few days we begin the holiday of Shavuos. Hashem’s descent onto Har {Mount} Sinai and His speaking to the entire nation would… Read More »Confusion!

“Hashem came forth from Sinai, shone forth to them from Seir, having appeared to them from Mount Paran” (Devarim 33:2) The Midrash records that prior… Read More »The Mitzvos Transform Us

This week’s reading as well as the entire book of Bamidbar is replete with the numbers of the populations of the Jewish people in the… Read More »It’s About People

Shimon HaTzadik was from the remnant of the Men of the Great Assembly and he used to say: “On three things the world stands on… Read More »The World Stands on This Pillar

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1250 Erev Shavuos on Shabbos.… Read More »Thoughts For Shavuos: I am “One Yosef” Because of the Power of Torah

BS”D Volume 36, No. 34 5 Sivan 5782 June 4, 2022 In this week’s Parashah, Bnei Yisrael are counted. R’ Moshe ben Nachman z”l (Ramban;… Read More »Everyone Counts

In his introduction to Chumash Bamidbar, Ramban speaks of the ways in which the encampment around the mishkan recreated Klal Yisrael’s encircling Har Sinai at… Read More »The Royal Guard

Rabbi Shimon said: Be careful with the recitation of the Shema and the prayers. When you pray, do not regard your prayers as a fixed… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 18(a): Prayer – Internal