May 2025

BS”D Volume 39, No. 30 26 Iyar 5785 May 24, 2025 Sponsored by the Katz family on the yahrzeits of Avigdor Moshe ben Avraham Abba… Read More »The Waiting Land

SOMETIMES YOU CAN be somewhere noisy, but one particular noise stands out and makes you focus on it. For example, I was once at an… Read More »Not So Anonymous

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1336 – The Tochacha of… Read More »Two Explanations of the “Giborei Koach” Title Given to Shmita Observers

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 Behar & Bechukosai

“When you make a sale to your fellow…”(25:14) Based upon the sequence of the verses, the Talmud teaches how severe is the impact of violating… Read More »I Do, Therefore I Am

This week’s Torah portion begins by outlining in great detail the laws of the Sabbatical year, where the entire land demonstrated that the primary Force… Read More »Green Energy and Source Power

“And you will count seven Shmitah {Sabbatical} cycles — seven years, seven times — forty-nine years . . . and you will sanctify the fiftieth… Read More »Freedom, Jubilee and You

The commandment of Shemitah is a test of our faith and an examination in our true belief in the Almighty’s ability to sustain us. The… Read More »Blind Faith

Until the morrow of the seventh week, you shall count fifty days.[2] This pasuk puts quite a strain on any regard we may have for… Read More »Forty-Nine Or Fifty?[1]

BS”D Volume 39, No. 29 19 Iyar 5785 May 17, 2025 Much of Parashat Emor is devoted to laws applicable only to Kohanim, as the… Read More »A Different Role