This weeks parsha sheet is dedicated to the memory of my sister-in-law’s mother, l’iluy nishmas Sussya Leah bas Yehuda Leib, one of the k’doshos of… Read More »The Way to a Person’s Soul is Through His Dignity
“…we would have been like Sodom, resembled Gemorrah…” (Yeshaya 1:9) The three Shabbasos that intervene between the seventeenth of Tammuz and the ninth of Av… Read More »Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Story “Hi Mom!” said Aryeh, holding the phone to his ear, “I just got home from school. My friend Koby came with me. Is… Read More »Bishul Akum
After forty long years in the desert, the Jewish people stood poised to conquer the Holy Land. But there were complications. Two of their most… Read More »Payment in Full
This week’s portion is the first from the book of Devarim, or Deuteronomy. The dictionary definition of Deuteronomy is “fifth book of the [Bible], derived… Read More »Flight to Freedom
The Book of Deuteronomy is basically Moshe’s final lecture to his nation. Sometimes softly, sometimes sternly, Moshe chides the nation about their behavior and misbehavior… Read More »Paradise Lost
BS”D Volume 36, No. 43 9 Av 5782 August 6, 2022 Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of his mother Pessel bat Naftali… Read More »Be Happy (Even Now)!
Friday Night THEY ASK HOW it was possible for the First Temple to be destroyed. They don’t mean physically, although stone burning would seem to… Read More »Devarim – Chazon
The portion this week begins with the laws of vows. The great Chassidic master, Rabbi Tzadok HaCohen ztl, established the following rule of biblical interpretation:… Read More »Start Building Now
Moshe wrote their goings out according to their journeys at the bidding of HASHEM, and these were their journeys according to their going out…” (Bamidbar… Read More »History and Your Story
