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There is nothing miraculous about a rainbow. Its colorful beauty derives from a simple natural phenomenon called refraction. Little droplets of water suspended in the… Read More »Joint Efforts

The lessons of the flood were just washed away. 340 years later the humans were up to their rebellious antics. This time, however, they were… Read More »Language Barrier

BS”D Volume 37, No. 2 4 Marcheshvan 5783 October 29, 2022 Sponsored by Mrs. Esther Liberman and family in memory of husband and father Yaakov… Read More »The Dove’s Rest

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: # 1134 – Are Non-Jews… Read More »The Connection Between Noach and Metzorah

QUESTION 31: PARKING FOR A MINUTE BY A BANK The parking space in front on the bank says ‘No standing”. Can I wait in my… Read More »Parking for a Minute by a Bank

Many men follow the practice of keeping their tallis on their head during tefillah. Halachic authorities explain that wearing a tallis on one’s head humbles… Read More »A Tallis on One’s Head

And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Avram and the herdsmen of Lot. And the Canaanites and the Perizites were then living in… Read More »Coming To Me

This week is a time of new beginnings. First of all, we will read this week about Creation: the beginning of plant life, animal life,… Read More »Conversation Starter

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that HASHEM, G-d made earth and heaven. (Breishis… Read More »The Spiritual Universe to Come

This week we once again begin the yearly cycle of Torah-reading with parshas Breishis. “In the beginning”… Starting again… We’ve gone through intense introspection during… Read More »It Was a Misunderstanding…