November 2022

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1137 – I’ll Buy Your… Read More »Charity Begins At Home

“He [Rabbi Chanina] used to say, anyone who is pleasing to his fellows is pleasing to G-d. Anyone who is not pleasing to his fellows… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 13: G-d Fashioned In The Image of Man

“At first the Almighty created the heavens and the earth.” (Bereshith 1:1) One would expect that the opening words of the Torah would express its… Read More »In The Beginning…

A woman once approached a well-known rav, requesting to wear a tallis for tefillah. To the woman’s great joy, the rav replied that he permitted… Read More »A Tallis without Tzitzis

QUESTION 33: USING A STRANGER’S CUP FOR YADAYIM At my company’s pantry, I wanted to wash for bread, but didn’t have a cup. There was… Read More »Stranger’s Cup

We are keenly aware of many levels of communication and connection with others. Broadly speaking, the closest level of connection, of course, is when we… Read More »A Next-Level Approach

The scapegoat (lit., ‘the goat which is sent’), since it affords atonement to all of Israel, the High Priest confesses upon it on behalf of… Read More »Chapter 1, Law 2 – Scapegoats and Shortcuts

Hashem appeared to him…while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day. …He lifted his eyes and saw…three… Read More »A Little Bit of Teshuvah

And HASHEM said, “Shall I conceal from Avraham what I am doing? And Avraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations… Read More »Still Doing a World of Good

In the Gemara (Brochos 7b), Avraham is praised for introducing the name of Hashem which indicates His mastery of the world. This is the name… Read More »Avraham and Hashem’s Power in the World