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Moshe said to the congregation: “This is the matter that Hashem commanded to do.”[2] What was Moshe telling them? Were there matters that Moshe demanded… Read More »Way Above Suspicion

The Torah reading of this week concerns itself with the tasks of the Priests in the Temple, regarding the sacrifices which were the centerpiece of… Read More »The Case Against Innovation in the Synagogue

He [Rabban Yochanan] said to them [his students]: Go out and see which is a bad way which a person should avoid. R. Eliezer said:… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 14(b): Peer Pressure

This week we read the parsha of Tzav (command). “Tzav es Aharon v’es banav laimore zos toras ha’olah (command Aharon and his sons, telling them… Read More »High Dividend Investments

“Take Aharon…” (8:2) The verse states that Hashem instructed Moshe to “take” Aharon and his sons to prepare them for consecration. Rashi comments that the… Read More »Taking the Right Approach

What do released prisoners, recovering patients, seafarers and caravan travelers all have in common? These people have all been in perilous situations, their very lives… Read More »Gratitude Unlimited

Teenage Jewish boys dressed as gorillas or past presidents dance in the streets. Younger boys wear costumes and masks identifying them as either Mordechai or… Read More »Behind the Purim Mask

This dvar Torah on Megillas Esther was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1195 (Vayikra… Read More »Be Very Careful About What You Daven For

Friday Night ACCORDING TO THE Talmud, the Jewish people were first redeemed on the 15th of Nissan, and they will be redeemed a final time… Read More »Month of Miracle

He [Rabban Yochanan] said to them [his students]: Go out and see what is a good way to which a person should cleave. R. Eliezer… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 13(b): Explaining Away G-d