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How terrible the disappointment must have been for Simon and Levi! How crushing! They had come to their father’s bedside together with all their brothers… Read More »Stolen Crafts

“And Yoseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years and they put him in a coffin in Egypt.” (Genesis 50:26) Thus ends… Read More »Hope in a Box

Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: The 48 Ways: 5-8: Exhilarating Fear

Bilaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps God will happen to appear to me, and He will show… Read More »What We DON’T See

BS”D Volume 34, No. 36 12 Tammuz 5780 July 4, 2020 Sponsored by Martin and Michelle Swartz on the yahrzeit (12 Tammuz) of Martin’s grandfather… Read More »Bar Kochva, Rabbi Akiva, and Redemption

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: CD #1125 – Saying Kaddish… Read More »ALL the Silver & Gold

In this week’s reading, we learn of Bilaam, the non-Jewish prophet who was called to come curse the Jews. Once given the opportunity, Bilaam saddled… Read More »Preemptive Passion

Regarding this matter (the concept that G-d ‘hardens the heart’ of unrepentant sinners, withholding from them the possibility of repentance), the Prophets and righteous beseech… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 4 – The Gift of Self-Perception

This is the (Torah) law of a man who dies in a tent, anyone entering the tent and anything in the tent shall be unclean… Read More »Our Hope

Hashem released upon the people fiery snakes, and they bit the people…Hashem said to Moshe, Make yourself a saraf, and place it on a pole…Moshe… Read More »Slithering Things