Yechezkel 45:16 This week’s haftorah, read in conjunction with Parshas Hachodesh presents the upcoming month of Nissan in a magnificent light. It begins with an… Read More »Haftorah Commentary – Parshas Hachodesh
There is an underlying theme to the message of the Metzora. This spiritual disease that causes discoloration of the skin or of hairs upon the… Read More »Self Destruction
Friday Night WHEN YOU HAVE a problem with your skin, you go to a skin doctor. Unless, of course it was tzara’as, in which case… Read More »Flesh Wound
1. On the influence of the stars upon events 1. G-d instilled yet another factor upon the stars, which is that all of the events experienced… Read More »Chapter 7: The Influence of the Stars – Paragraph 2
QUESTION 10: It was only 3 minutes before the bus was scheduled to arrive, and I started running towards the only phone near the bus… Read More »Running to a Phone
Last week’s stories imply that answering amen to a bracha is compulsory, and that the consequences are serious if one does not do so. This… Read More »Obligation or Optional
When [Yosef] told [his dream] to his father and brothers, his father scolded him and said to him, “What kind of dream did you have?… Read More »Jealousy
Our previous installment of this class explored the connection between God’s parenting of us, and our own parenting of children. Given this model, we may… Read More »Parenting Lessons from God – The Ultimate Parent, Part 2
And Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, each took his pan, put fire in them, and placed incense upon it, and they brought before HASHEM foreign… Read More »To Say Nothing
All living creatures that exist in our world require nutrition to be able to survive. Human beings, being the most sophisticated of all creatures on… Read More »The Pivotal Power of Kosher