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“And you will count seven Shmitah {Sabbatical} cycles — seven years, seven times — forty-nine years . . . and you will sanctify the fiftieth… Read More »Freedom, Jubilee and You

The commandment of Shemitah is a test of our faith and an examination in our true belief in the Almighty’s ability to sustain us. The… Read More »Blind Faith

Until the morrow of the seventh week, you shall count fifty days.[2] This pasuk puts quite a strain on any regard we may have for… Read More »Forty-Nine Or Fifty?[1]

BS”D Volume 39, No. 29 19 Iyar 5785 May 17, 2025 Much of Parashat Emor is devoted to laws applicable only to Kohanim, as the… Read More »A Different Role

Last class, we continued our general introduction of the seventeenth blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai (and the first blessing of our final section of thanksgiving).… Read More »Modim (cont.): Gratefulness for Everything

This week we read the parsha of Emor. In last week’s parsha the entire Bnei Yisroel {Children of Israel}were commanded to be holy. In this… Read More »Do As I Do

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1335 – May We Accept… Read More »Speak Softly and Put Up With a Lot of Shtick

How long would it take for a single person to lift twenty-two thousand full-grown men off the ground one at a time? It is exhausting… Read More »Over the Top

Observation does not necessarily mean participation – at least in an etymological or grammatical sense. My dealings with Jews who do not keep Torah law… Read More »Mitzvah-Watch

This Thursday is Lag B’Omer, b”H. It is the day we are told on which Rebi Shimon bar Yochai died, but not before revealing the… Read More »Be A Vessel