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The silly person in the following story makes four halachic mistakes. Can you find them? Can you think of how the story is connected with… Read More »Birkas Hamazon – Grace After Meals

Rabbi Shimon said: Three people who ate at the same table and did not speak words of Torah are as if they had eaten from… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 4(c): Body or Soul? Part III

One of the greatest challenges we face in life is being trapped in the rut of our personal shortcomings. As time progresses, we become more… Read More »Falling Off the Horse

Moshe’s discourse to the children of Israel at the end of his life continues in this week’s parsha. I think that it has to be… Read More »Follow the Leader

Eikev, the name of this week’s parsha, can also be read okaiv, “heel”. Regrettably, there are some commandments that are dismissed as ‘minor’. That inevitably… Read More »Downtrodden

One of the most discussed verses in this week’s portion deals with the fear of Heaven. Moshe presents the Children of Israel with a simple… Read More »The Summary of All Fear

Friday Night It sounds like a good thing at first, getting to know good and evil. After all, if you don’t know what they are,… Read More »Respect

BS”D Volume 36, No. 45 23 Av 5782 August 20, 2022 Sponsored by Robert and Hannah Klein in memory of her father Shlomo ben Zvi… Read More »Always in Season

1. We’d also need to know that G-d’s interactions with us break down to things that concern our bodies and those that concern our souls.… Read More »Chapter 8: The Details of Divine Providence – Paragraph 2

The Sages said: ‘[For] three sins a person is punished (lit., ‘it is collected from a person’) in this world, and he has no share… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 3(c) – Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part III