June 2025

And HASHEM spoke to Moshe and Aaron, saying, “How much longer will this evil congregation …” (Bamidbar 14:26-27) Here’s a curious and somewhat embarrassing fact.… Read More »The Land of Our Dreams

BS”D Volume 39, No. 34 25 Sivan 5785 June 21, 2025 Sponsored by Zev & Marlene Teichman on the yahrzeit of her father Louis Leonard… Read More »In Whom Do We Trust?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1341 – A Beautiful Talis:… Read More »The Difference Between the Spies Sent by Moshe and the Spies Sent by Yehoshua

In this week’s portion we find Moshe Rabeinu dispatched the 12 spies to prepare for the people’s successful entry into the promised land. Rather than… Read More »Fish N’ Chips or New Frontiers

It was not a good scenario. The twelve spies returned from their forty-day sojourn to the Land of Canaan and ten of them were not… Read More »Piece of Cake

If only the spies had learned from Miriam, how speaking loshon hara is a bad thing. Perhaps they would have held their tongues and not… Read More »Down To The Root

The rabble that was among them craved for lust, and the Bnei Yisrael also wept again. They said, “Who will feed us meat?”[2] There is… Read More »Spiritually Inflated Egos[1]

Aaron did so; he lit the lamps toward the face of the Menorah, as HASHEM had commanded Moshe. (Bamidbar 8:3) Aaron did so. This shows… Read More »Be a Window and Not a Pane

This Monday, I began, a two-part series of classes called “The Mystery of Jewish History.” I came up with the title years ago when writing… Read More »Straight Up

This dvar Torah was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: # 196, Vegetarianism. Good Shabbos! There is a… Read More »The Ananei Hakavod Teach Us to Learn Torah and Do Miztvos in All Conditions