June 2025

This weeks parsha, B’haaloscha, deals with many very diverse issues. A major portion is devoted to our travels in the wilderness. These travels were dictated… Read More »Don’t Sue the Travel Agent

This week’s Torah portion begins with the mitzvah that Aharon was given in the Mishkan, to prepare and kindle the Menorah. The word “be’haaloshcha,” meaning… Read More »Let

This week’s portion ends with a disheartening story, one that Jews are reminded to recount every day of their lives. The great prophetess, Miriam, sister… Read More »Fatherly Rebuke

This is the law of the Nazirite: On the day of his completing his Nazirite period, he shall bring himself to the entrance to the… Read More »A Golden Crown

A spirit of jealousy passed over him, and he had warned his wife, and she had become defiled. Or a spirit of jealousy passed over… Read More »Jealousy’s Dual Spirits

BS”D Volume 39, No. 32 11 Sivan 5785 June 7, 2025 With 176 verses, Naso is the longest single Parashah in the Torah. R’ Yitzchak… Read More »A New Start

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1339 The Sole Practitioner Lawyer… Read More »Who’s on First? No One – They Are All Riding a Merry-Go-Round!

On the Shabbos immediately after Shavuos we are treated to the longest Torah reading of the year – the one hundred and seventy-six verses of… Read More »It’s All in the Delivery

One of the most striking components of Parshas Naso is the listing of all the princes, the nessi’im, of the Children of Israel, and the… Read More »Respectful Repeats

LIFT UP THEIR heads? Why not just say, “Count the people”? Because that is the goal of counting people, to say that they count, that… Read More »To Be Uplifted