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So near and yet so far. The Jewish people were massed in the Desert, waiting for the signal to enter into the Promised Land. In… Read More »The Grasshopper Syndrome

The sojourn in the desert was no walk in the park. True, it was a period of time in which miracles were the norm and… Read More »Grinding the Point

THE NAME ALONE makes me uncomfortable. It’s not just what Korach did, because there have been many rebellions against the Torah leadership throughout the ages.… Read More »The Arrogance of it All

According to the number of days that you spied out the land – forty days – a day for a year, a day for a… Read More »Divinely Disappeared[1]

And HASHEM spoke to Moshe and Aaron, saying, “How much longer will this evil congregation …” (Bamidbar 14:26-27) Here’s a curious and somewhat embarrassing fact.… Read More »The Land of Our Dreams

BS”D Volume 39, No. 34 25 Sivan 5785 June 21, 2025 Sponsored by Zev & Marlene Teichman on the yahrzeit of her father Louis Leonard… Read More »In Whom Do We Trust?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1341 – A Beautiful Talis:… Read More »The Difference Between the Spies Sent by Moshe and the Spies Sent by Yehoshua

In this week’s portion we find Moshe Rabeinu dispatched the 12 spies to prepare for the people’s successful entry into the promised land. Rather than… Read More »Fish N’ Chips or New Frontiers

It was not a good scenario. The twelve spies returned from their forty-day sojourn to the Land of Canaan and ten of them were not… Read More »Piece of Cake

If only the spies had learned from Miriam, how speaking loshon hara is a bad thing. Perhaps they would have held their tongues and not… Read More »Down To The Root