July 2025

THE CONCEPT OF blessing is known far and wide and for who knows how long now? In the Torah, it goes back to the first… Read More »What A Blessing

BS”D Volume 39, No. 37 16 Tammuz 5785 July 12, 2025 Sponsored by Mrs. Rochelle Dimont and family on the yahrzeit of grandfather and great-grandfather… Read More »Rising Like a Lion

Giving Kavod to Hashem’s Name (Based on Pachad Yitzchok, Pesach 60b) From the verse, “Havu Godel Leilokeinu” we learn that we should give honor to… Read More »Giving Kavod to Hashem’s Name

HASHEM spoke to Moshe, saying: “Take the staff and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock in their presence… Read More »Carrying a Big Stick

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1343 – Making a Mi’she’bairach… Read More »How Does the “Mother Cow” Make Up for the Mess Made by Her “Child”?

BS”D Volume 39, No. 36 9 Tammuz 5785 July 5, 2025 Sponsored by the Dimont family, mother, wife, children, and siblings in memory of Chayim… Read More »Seeing Farther

The kohen shall take cedar wood and hyssop[2] Why those? This one is easy. Gaavah lurks behind all tumah in the world, particularly tumas meis.… Read More »Uppers and Downers[1]

This week Parshas Chukas is read here in Israel and Parshas Korach is read outside of Israel. Chukas begins: “Zos chukas haTorah {these are the… Read More »Decree of the Torah

” … a man who will die in the tent” (19:14) The Talmud interprets the above verse in a homiletical manner. “Tent” alludes to the… Read More »Egocentricity Prevents Internalizing Torah

Crime and Punishment. In a corporeal world, the correlation of a jail sentence to a crime does not symbolize a cogent philosophical message. Of course,… Read More »Crime and Punishment