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Friday Night This is not my story, but it could be anybody’s. It was the first day of Selichos, Motzei Shabbos, 12:30 am. I never… Read More »Getting In Touch

BS”D Volume 36, No. 50 28 Elul 5782 September 24, 2022 Sponsored by the Greengart and Lerman families in memory of their father Zvi ben… Read More »Farewell to the Shemittah!

Rabbi Elazar of Bartosa said: Give Him from His own, for you and your possessions are His. And so regarding King David does the verse… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 8(b): Testing G-d

QUESTION 29: RESERVING FOOD The dining room at my son’s yeshiva has a rule that half hour after a meal begins, if food is left… Read More »Reserving Food and Parking Lot Next Door

“Prepare yourself to daven before the G-d of Israel” (Amos 4,12). Rav Kahana would wrap himself in a tallis before tefillah (Shabbos 10a). Based on… Read More »Dressed in a Tallis

…Perhaps it was an oversight on their part. (Bereshith 43:12) When Yaakov saw that the money his sons had paid for food in Egypt was… Read More »The Best Policy

In emphasizing once again the eternal validity of God’s covenant with the Jewish people, Moshe addresses his words to the entire nation. All classes of… Read More »Our Covenant – the Great Equalizer

“You are standing today, all of you…” (29:9) Parshas Nitzavim begins with Moshe assembling the entire nation of Israel on the last day of his… Read More »Our Leaders Define Us

There would be no tomorrow for Moses. He knows this is the last day of his life, and as he stands before the people, he… Read More »Of Blandishments and Seductions

“See – I have placed before you today life and good, and death and evil…and you will choose life so you will live, you and… Read More »It’s Never Too Late