August 2025

The deadline is rapidly approaching. In a few days, the Shemittah laws will cancel all outstanding loans. You intensify your efforts to collect all the… Read More »Give and Take

This week the Torah teaches us about charity. Not only does it tell us who to give, it tells us how to give. And it… Read More »Giving Personally

FOR DECADES I have been writing down the issue number of the current week’s Perceptions just as a matter of protocol, and without really comprehending… Read More »See Plus

Eikev      In this parsha we have the mitzva of tefila and the mitzva of bentching Birkas Hamazon after a seuda.      The… Read More »Tefila and Brochos

And He afflicted you and let you go hungry, and then fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your forefathers know,… Read More »Feelings of Gratitude for ALL

BS”D Volume 39, No. 42 22 Av 5785 August 16, 2025 Sponsored by Brian and Chaya Rozen on the yahrzeit of Chaya’s father Moshe Yosef… Read More »Paving the Way

Do not say …when Hashem pushes them away from before you… “Because of my righteousness Hashem brought me to possess this Land, and because of… Read More »Don’t Let It Go To Your Heads[1]

This week’s parsha, Aikev, continues with Moshe’s exhortations to Klal Yisroel to adhere to the Torah and to maintain that special relationship with Hashem. “V’hayah… Read More »Don’t Trample on the Little Things

As part of the ongoing recounting of the desert experience this week in Parshas Ekev, Moshe discusses the Eigel HaZahav, the sin of the Golden… Read More »Steadfast Gratitude

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, which is on the earth below, or… Read More »Look Down