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QUESTION 26: JOINING AAA AFTER FLAT If one gets a flat tire and is not a member of the AAA, can one call up the… Read More »Joining AAA and White Lie to Daughter

…take a gift for the Viceroy – a little balm, a little honey, gum resin, pistachio nuts and almonds. (Bereshith 43:11) The nature of a… Read More »Free Gifts

Friday Night WE HAVE BEEN saying Tehillah 27, L’Dovid since Rosh Chodesh Elul. In it is a very famous line that was also made into… Read More »To Dwell In His House

Rabbi Nechunia ben (son of) Ha’kaneh said: Whoever accepts upon himself the yoke of Torah study, the yoke of government and the yoke of earning… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 6: Born To Toil

All such people [discussed above] are [considered] speakers of lashon hara (malicious gossip) in whose neighborhood it is forbidden to dwell, and certainly [it is… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 6(a) – Tunnel Vision, Part I

All societies require some means of government to maintain law and order. So the Torah’s directive, in the opening of this week’s Torah portion, to… Read More »Personal Police

This weeks parsha, Shoftim, contains a pasuk which outlines our proper approach to life and its occurrences. “When you come to the land… don’t learn… Read More »Of Rocks and Hundred Dollar Bills

I think my mind has been playing tricks on me all these years. I am looking at the verse, “Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof” as if for… Read More »The Tzedek Needs to Be with Tzedek

You shall utterly destroy them…so that they will not teach you to act according to all their abominations that they performed for their gods, so… Read More »Foreign Influences

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1302 – Cutting Down Your… Read More »The Dual Personality of the Jewish Monarch