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It didn’t cost anything. They didn’t have to work for it. They didn’t even have to go anywhere to pick it up. For the entire… Read More »A Taste of Heaven

The Mitzvah: The firstborn of both man and animal is sanctified to G-d (Exodus 13:2). Indeed, the first issue of the Children of Israel were… Read More »Bechor: That’s My Firstborn!

“The people took to seeking complaints;it was evil in the eyes of Hashem…”(11:1) In this week’s parsha we are introduced to a segment of Bnei… Read More »Happy To Be Unhappy

This week’s parsha records the first travels of the Jewish nation, after they spent almost a year encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai. At… Read More »Flipped Upside Down

G-d chastised Miriam and Aaron for discussing Moshe’s refraining from personal intimacy to facilitate his service of G-d, a discussion that was not disparaging, as… Read More »Our Awesome Power

In this week’s portion, there is a brief conversation that may get lost in the myriad activity of some of its more fascinating stories and… Read More »It’s the Real Thing

Friday Night THE MENORAH REPRESENTED many things, one of which was emunah, faith in God. The Shulchan, on which the Lechem HaPanim, the shewbread sat… Read More »Light of Faith

A person is obligated to be careful [in dealing] with orphans and widows since their souls are very lowly and their spirits are down —… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 10(a) – Seeing Beneath the Surface

One day Jack noticed his friend Bob, happily jumping up and down on a manhole cover, shouting, “Twenty-three! Twenty-three!” Bewildered by his friend’s behavior, he… Read More »Manhole Madness

HASHEM spoke to Moshe saying: Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: A man or woman who sets himself apart… Read More »Keep the Focus Inward