August 2022

Yeshaya 66 This week’s haftorah, read in conjunction with Shabbos Rosh Chodesh, reveals to us a secret dimension of this significant date. In fact, as… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Shabbos Rosh Chodesh

In this week’s portion, the Torah tells us to decimate any remnant of idolatry: “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations that… Read More »Total Control

See I place before you today blessing and curse. (Devarim 11:26) Hear O’Israel Hashem is our G-d Hashem is One! (Devarim 6:4) Hearing is not… Read More »It is Caught with Two Hands

So that you will remember the day you left Egypt all the days of your life.[2] That we are instructed to remember the Exodus twice… Read More »Truth In Thinking

Last class we reviewed the twelfth (and additional) blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai, continuing to review the communal blessings and focusing on our plea that… Read More »A Prayer for the Righteous – Including Ourselves

Friday Night How do you know you’re right? This was the question going through my mind during a conversation I had with someone a couple… Read More »The Real Blessing

BS”D Volume 36, No. 46 30 Av 5782 August 27, 2022 Sponsored by Micheline and David Peller in memory of their daughter Zipporah a”h bat… Read More »One for All!

Rabbi Chanina ben (son of) Chachi’nie said, one who stays awake at night or travels on the road alone and leaves his heart open to… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 5: The Radio Syndrome

BS”D Volume 35, No. 43 6 Elul 5781 August 14, 2021 In loving memory of our mother Fruma bas Ephraim, Florence Rosenthol, on her yahrtzeit… Read More »What Holds Up the World

There are [within] this [topic] matters which are the ‘dust’ of lashon hara (gossip). How is this? [For example], “Who would have guessed that so-and-so… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 4 – Birds of Prey