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Two identical goats awaited the High Priest in the Temple courtyard on Yom Kippur. The multitudinous spectators watched with bated breath as the High Priest… Read More »The Crossroads of Life

This week the Torah tells us about loving every Jew. It adds a special verse exhorting us to be especially sensitive to a special type… Read More »Honorable Mentshen

WHEN YOU THINK about Aharon HaKohen, you think about peace. You think about all the good and wholesome things about a Torah life. You think… Read More »The Path To…

HASHEM spoke to Moshe, saying: “Speak to the Children of Israel, saying: When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male…On the eighth day… Read More »Positive Possibilities

BS”D Volume 39, No. 27 5 Iyar 5785 May 3, 2025 Sponsored by the Vogel family on the yahrzeit of grandmother Blanche Vogel (Bluma bat… Read More »Who’s on First?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1333 – Oops! There is… Read More »If He Can Be Cured, So Can I

METZORA Melachim II 7:3–20 Refining Our Character FlawsPeople are driven by various interests during their lifetime. Although one can, at times, conceal one’s true colors… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Metzora

This weeks parsha, Metzora, begins with the purification process of the metzora- the afflicted individual. As we explained last week, this ailment, not to be… Read More »A Social Misfit and Recluse

In this week’s Torah portion, the Torah deals with various types of tzoraas, commonly mistranslated as leprosy. Tzoraas is a Heavenly affliction that strikes a… Read More »Eyeing the Eye

Parshas Tazria deals primarily with the physio-spirtual plague that affects gossips and rumor mongers with the plague of tzora’as. Tzora’as appears as a white lesion… Read More »Kohen… Kohen… GONE!