July 2024

Dear Mrs. Kohn: Thank you for your article regarding the agunah. I was one for 9 months and many times during that period I was… Read More »The Plight of an Agunah

EVIL BALAK. RIGHTEOUS Rus. Polar opposites. One tried to destroy the Jewish people, the other joined them. One was the antithesis of Moshiach, and the… Read More »From Balak to Rus

Chukas 5784 The Zedichov – Chicago Rebbe, Rav Yehoshua Heschel Eichenstein, zecher tzaddik l’brocha, was recently niftar.  I received from him many hours of guidance… Read More »Speak to the Rock

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1299 – Can You Remove… Read More »Why Aharon HaKohen Was Mourned by the Entire House of Israel

This is the decree of the Torah[1] For good reason, the mitzvah of parah adumah has become identified as the ultimate chok. After all, it… Read More »Reason or Reasonableness?

BS”D Volume 38, No. 39 7 Tammuz 5784 July 13, 2024 Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Katz on the yahrzeit of his mother Sarah… Read More »Pillar of Prayer

THE WINK GIVES it away. Maybe you were supposed to see it, maybe you weren’t. But if it was at someone else while they were… Read More »The Winkly Parsha

Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person… Read More »Parsha Summary for Parshas Chukas

Judges: 11 1:33 In the year 2779 Yiftach HaGiladi became Judge – Shofet. Yiftach is described as a gifted warrior who was seemingly unworthy of… Read More »Haftorah Summary for Parshas Chukas

“And Moshe sent emissaries from Kadesh to the king of Edom…”(20:14) Moshe sends a delegation to the king of Edom requesting permission to pass through… Read More »The Power Of Prayer