January 2026

And Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and HASHEM led the sea with the strong east wind all night, and He made the… Read More »And Never Stop Singing

If you will hear the voice of Hashem your G-d and do what is just in His eyes, give ear to His commandments…[2] “Hearing”/shmia and… Read More »Lend Me Your Ears[1]

This week we read the parsha of B’shalach. “Va’y’hee b’shalach Paroah es ha’am {And it was when Paroah sent the nation}[13:17].” Although the climactic event… Read More »Nothing’s More Natural Than Nature

Fear is not a rational thing. Even when the mind knows perfectly well that there is absolutely no danger, sinister shadows strike fear into the… Read More »A Cry from the Heart

In this week’s portion, the Egyptians did not walk they ran right into trouble. Despite ten plagues which proved that Hashem had absolute control over… Read More »Yield Right of Way

BS”D Volume 40, No. 16 13 Shevat 5786 January 31, 2026 Sponsored by Hyam and Naomi Singer in memory of his grandfather Chaim ben Chanoch… Read More »Only Holy

The Gemora makes a rather ominous statement that making a zivug is as difficult as splitting the sea (Sotah 2a). Hearing this, most minds immediately… Read More »Of Seas and Soul Mates

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1367 An Interesting Asher Yatzar… Read More »Hashem’s Hineni: A Reward for Avraham’s Heneini

This week, Moshe comes before Pharaoh to warn him of the coming Tenth and Final Plague: So says G-d: at roughly midnight, I will go… Read More »But it’s not Midnight!

And on this night, they shall eat the flesh (of the Korbon Pesach), roasted over the fire, and Matzos; with Marror they shall eat it.… Read More »The Sign of a Free People