These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1339 The Sole Practitioner Lawyer… Read More »Who’s on First? No One – They Are All Riding a Merry-Go-Round!
On the Shabbos immediately after Shavuos we are treated to the longest Torah reading of the year – the one hundred and seventy-six verses of… Read More »It’s All in the Delivery
One of the most striking components of Parshas Naso is the listing of all the princes, the nessi’im, of the Children of Israel, and the… Read More »Respectful Repeats
LIFT UP THEIR heads? Why not just say, “Count the people”? Because that is the goal of counting people, to say that they count, that… Read More »To Be Uplifted
Take a census of all of the assembly of the Bnei Yisrael according to their families, according to their fathers’ household, by number of the… Read More »The Ultimate Pedigree
BS”D Bemidbar Volume 39, No. 31 4 Sivan 5785 May 31, 2025 Sponsored by the Vogel family on the 4th yahrzeit of mother, grandmother, and… Read More »The Honor Guard
Rabbi Frand on Bamidbar and Shavuos These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Torah Tapes on the… Read More »The Double-Edged Sword of Opportunity and Responsibility
This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Bamidbar. “And Hashem spoke to Moshe Bamidbar {in the wilderness of} Sinai, in the Ohel Moed {Tent… Read More »Time and Space
“…according to the number of names…”(1:3) Chazal refer to the fourth book of the Torah as Sefer HaPekudim – The Book Of Counting. Presumably this… Read More »Everyone Counts
Was it an accident of geography that a barren wilderness lay between Egypt and the Promised Land? Was it an accident of geography that the… Read More »The Wilderness Within