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The final portions of the Torah don’t let us escape from the harsh realties of real-world trials and tribulations. In this week’s combined portions of… Read More »Battle Hymn of the Republic

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(c) – Tunnel Vision, Part III

The Torah portion this week opens with the Mitzvah (Commandment) of Bikurim. Farmers would bring the first fruits of their field to the Holy Temple… Read More »Insanely Sweet

And it will be, when you come into the land which HASHEM, your G-d, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle… Read More »Complain All You Want

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1304 Erasing a Tatoo of… Read More »Gratitude Makes the World Go Round

BS”D Volume 36, No. 49 21 Elul 5782 September 17, 2022 This week’s Parashah tells us (28:9), “You shall walk in His ways,” teaching that… Read More »You Count!

You shall take of the first of every fruit…and go to the place that Hashem your G-d will choose…and you shall say to him [the… Read More »It’s Not Just The Thought That Counts

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(a): Think Globally – Act Locally

One of the bitterest curses that the Torah describes in the tochacha, which forms a major portion of this parsha, is that all our efforts will be… Read More »The Curse and the Hope

QUESTION 28: INTERVIEWING RABBIS A community has been talking with a Rabbi for several months about his becoming the Rabbi of their community. There was… Read More »Interviewing Rabbis