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This week we read the parsha of Naso. Amongst the different topics discussed is the issue of Nazir, which is explained beautifully by the S’forno.… Read More »Buy Low, Sell High

“…Any man whose wife goes astray…” (5:12) From the juxtaposition of the section discussing the Priestly gifts to the laws of the Sotah, a woman… Read More »Out Of Control

Gifts are not worth much if the recipient cannot keep them. In fact, that is the very meaning of the word “gift,” something that is… Read More »Guaranteed Investments

The Story “We made it!” Yishai proclaimed with excitement. “Yes” Daniel replied “It’s 5 o’clock in the morning and we managed to learn the entire… Read More »Birkas Cohanim – The Priestly Blessing

(Insights from this week’s Portion: Naso) Hi All – the title of this article is derived from my friend & partner Aryeh Cohen’s beautiful, stirring… Read More »A Little Peace in Our Time

There is a verse in this week’s portion which seems to have a misplaced possesive. But on closer analysis every noun and pronoun lend powerful… Read More »For Him the Bell Tolls

Friday Night THE AMAZING THING is not how corrupt mankind can be, but how God built such levels of corruption into man, and puts up… Read More »On The Flipside

In just a few days we begin the holiday of Shavuos. Hashem’s descent onto Har {Mount} Sinai and His speaking to the entire nation would… Read More »Confusion!

“Hashem came forth from Sinai, shone forth to them from Seir, having appeared to them from Mount Paran” (Devarim 33:2) The Midrash records that prior… Read More »The Mitzvos Transform Us

This week’s reading as well as the entire book of Bamidbar is replete with the numbers of the populations of the Jewish people in the… Read More »It’s About People