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Friday Night I WONDER HOW Tzipporah, Moshe’s wife, felt after Miriam was sent out of the camp and the Jewish people were held up in… Read More »Learn The Lesson

A person is obligated to be careful [in dealing] with orphans and widows since their souls are very lowly and their spirits are down… as… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 10(b) – Balancing Acts and Education

G-d blessed the Jewish people with the miraculous Manna to collect each morning as they traveled and camped in the desert. Most, of course, were… Read More »A Manna of Perspective

One of the tasks of the Priests in the Tabernacle and in the Temple was the rekindling of the great Candelabra on a daily basis.… Read More »The Flame of Independence

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1252 The Dilemma of the… Read More »It Was Not the Cucumbers and Onions!

HASHEM said to Moshe saying, “Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you “light-up” the lamps, toward the face of the Menorah shall the… Read More »Encouragement!

The people were ke-misonenim/like complainers, which was evil in Hashem’s ears.[2] Misonenim, says Rashi, means seeking a pretext for removing themselves from following Hashem. In… Read More »Inventing Pretexts

BS”D Volume 36, No. 36 19 Sivan 5782 June 18, 2022 Sponsored by the Edeson & Stern Families on the yahrzeit of their dear friend,… Read More »Raising the Lights

This week we read the parsha of B’haaloscha. “Speak to Aharon and say to him: When you kindle the lights; toward that central light on… Read More »Aharon’s Unique Gift

Rabbi Shimon said: Be careful with the recitation of the Shema and the prayers. When you pray, do not regard your prayers as a fixed… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 18(c): Dooming Ourselves