August 2022

One of the most discussed verses in this week’s portion deals with the fear of Heaven. Moshe presents the Children of Israel with a simple… Read More »The Summary of All Fear

Friday Night It sounds like a good thing at first, getting to know good and evil. After all, if you don’t know what they are,… Read More »Respect

BS”D Volume 36, No. 45 23 Av 5782 August 20, 2022 Sponsored by Robert and Hannah Klein in memory of her father Shlomo ben Zvi… Read More »Always in Season

1. We’d also need to know that G-d’s interactions with us break down to things that concern our bodies and those that concern our souls.… Read More »Chapter 8: The Details of Divine Providence – Paragraph 2

The Sages said: ‘[For] three sins a person is punished (lit., ‘it is collected from a person’) in this world, and he has no share… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 3(c) – Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part III

The verses of the Shema begin with a commandment to “Serve G-d with all your heart. (Deut. 6:5)” The word for heart in the Hebrew… Read More »It’s a Pleasure to Serve You

And you shall love HASHEM, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your means. (Devarim 6:5) What does… Read More »How Powerful We Are

You shall safeguard and perform them, for it is your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of the nations, who shall hear all these chukim/decrees… Read More »How To Sell Chukim

Rabbi Shimon said, three people who ate at the same table and did not speak words of Torah are as if they had eaten from… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 4(b): Body or Soul? Part II

This week’s parsha begins the seven-week period of consolation and condolence that bridges the time space between Tisha b’Av and Rosh Hashana. In order to… Read More »Matters of Consolation