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Question: What are the Yom Tov restrictions in regard to flowers? Discussion: Flowers, while still connected to the ground, may be smelled and touched, provided… Read More »Shavuos: Questions And Answers

This week we begin the book of Numbers. Actually, the first portion, Bamidbar, begins with a discussion of numbers. Moshe was told to count the… Read More »The Starting Count

The role the stars play in it all has its limits, based on G-d’s wisdom. Some of their functions can be seen with our own… Read More »Chapter 7: The Influence of the Stars – Paragraph 4

Friday Night This world is, well, not what it could be, and I am being polite. Years ago, I would have said it lost its… Read More »True Leadership

If one’s fellow sinned to him and he does not want to rebuke him or speak to him at all because the sinner is particularly… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 9 – Letting It Go

The majority of this week’s reading is devoted to G-d’s warning of severe curses that will come upon the Jewish nation, if it acts with… Read More »Countering Chaos

The debates of the schools of Hillel and Shammai are an integral part of the Torah Sh’ba’al Peh, presented in the Mishnah and Gemara. For… Read More »The Arguments of Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai

BS”D Volume 36, No. 33 27 Iyar 5782 May 28, 2022 Sponsored by David and Micheline Peller on the yahrzeit of her father Baruch ben… Read More »Where’s the Reward?

If he redeems it, he must add a fifth to its valuation.[2] Rashi puts it simply. “The Torah was strict with the owner, obligating him… Read More »Constantly Upwards

This weeks parsha, Bechukosai, is the final parsha in Sefer Vayikra. “Im bechukosai telechu…”- if, with my commandments you will walk… “I will send your… Read More »Smacks of Affection