torah

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

“I will remember My covenant with Yaakov and also My covenant with Yitzchak, and also My covenant with Avraham will I remember…” (26:42) At the… Read More »A One-Sided Affair

Yirmiyahu 16:19 This week’s haftorah teaches us a profound lesson in trust and faith in Hashem. The prophet Yirmiyahu introduces the haftorah by proclaiming, “Hashem… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Bechukosai

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1205 – The Case of… Read More »We Toil and They Toil; We Run and They Run

And HASHEM spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, in the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month, in the second… Read More »The Best Hotel Ever

This week’s Torah reading marks the end of the book of Vayikra. This, the third book of the Torah, is replete with laws, commandments, and… Read More »In Summation of Vayikra – Leviticus