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Friday Night POWER, POWER, AND more power. There are almost eight billion people on this planet, yet the amount of people who crave power, go… Read More »Soul Power

BS”D Volume 36, No. 38 3 Tammuz 5782 July 2, 2022 Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Katz on the yahrzeit of his mother Sarah… Read More »Carry or Carried

Rabbi Tarfon said: The day is short, the work is great, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master of the house… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 20: The Reward of the Torah

Law 1 One who “spies” on his fellow [in order to find negative information to report] transgresses a negative prohibition as it is stated, “You… Read More »Chapter 7, Laws 1-2(a) – The Sins of the Great, Part I

Before entering the land of Israel, the Jewish people asked to send in spies to understand the challenges they would face as they conquer the… Read More »Make a “See” Change

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1208 – Going to Daven… Read More »Sipur and Dibur in Saying Lashon HaRah

Send, for yourself, men and let them spy out the Land[2] Rashi explains the strange hesitation in lecha/for yourself: “I am not commanding you to… Read More »How To Guarantee Failure In Fighting The Yetzer Hora

BS”D Volume 36, No. 37 26 Sivan 5782 June 25, 2022 Sponsored by Zev and Marlene Teichman on the yahrzeit of her father, Louis Leonard… Read More »What is Work?

We are taught by a Mishnah in Avot that the Jewish people, as represented by the generation of the Sinai desert, tested the Lord 10… Read More »A Fragile Faith

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of Torah. Know what to answer a heretic. Know before Whom you toil. And faithful is your… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 19: Answering the Heretic