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You know how sometimes during a conversation you start to zoom out because the topic fails to grab your attention? That’s kind of what this… Read More »Pure Covenant

בס”ד 24 Nissan 5786 April 11, 2026 Dedicated in gratitude to Hashem on Hamaayan’s 39th “birthday” and in memory of Moreinu Ha’Rav Gedaliah ben Zev… Read More »Animal School

The tiny bundle of pink flesh, with the tightly clenched fists and eyes, emits a lusty cry, and suddenly, all faces are wreathed in smiles.… Read More »A Matter Of Life And Death

They offered before Hashem foreign fire that He had not commanded them.[2] Chazal sense that the offering of the fire per se was not the… Read More »Feeling It[1]

The sirens used to go off once a day, maybe twice. And they didn’t seem to go off at the most inconvenient times either, and… Read More »Exception or Rule?

“Do not drink intoxicating wine…” (10:9) The Talmud compares the prohibition for a Kohein to perform the Priestly service after having imbibed wine to the… Read More »Wearing The Same Robe

What can be more painful than the loss of a child? After a parent holds his infant child in his arms, after he helps the… Read More »The Eloquence of Silence

This week we read the parsha of Shemini. “Va’y’hee ba’yome ha’shmini {And it was on the eighth day}, Moshe summoned Aharon and his sons and… Read More »For This You Have Been Chosen

It was the last day of the Mishkan’s inauguration. The joy was immeasurable, somewhat akin to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a cherished king’s new palace… Read More »White Noise

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1376 – Talking While Washing… Read More »First Times Are Special