These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #231, Making a Siyum. Good… Read More »We Toil and Receive Reward — For the Toil!
The basic lesson in this week’s Torah reading is accountability. God demands from Moshe and the others who formulated and created the Tabernacle in the… Read More »Why Every Jew Should Become an Accountant
This week we read the double-parsha of Vayakhel-Pekudai and complete the Sefer {Book of} Shemos. These two Parshios deal with the actual production of the… Read More »Counting and Accounting
“How can we sing the song of a stranger on foreign soil” (Tehillim 137,4). When the Temple stood we had the opportunity to hear the… Read More »A Song Without a Song
QUESTION 6: I work for a large company that has a company telephone directory. A friend who works for a Jewish outreach organization asked me… Read More »Company Phone Directory
Then Yosef had a dream and told it to his brothers… (Bereshith 37:5) The commentators tell us that Yosef’s dreams were in fact true, and… Read More »Dreams
A few weeks ago, at the end of our class on Queen Esther, we asked for your response to the following question… “How would you… Read More »In a Challenging Environment: Advice from Readers
Last class we reviewed the eleventh blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai, continuing to review the communal blessings and focusing on our request for the restoration… Read More »An Additional Plea
BS”D Volume 36, No. 23 2 Adar II 5782 March 5, 2022 Sponsored by Rochelle Dimont on the yahrzeit of her mother Mrs. Chaya Tarshish… Read More »Everyone Has a Part
Friday Night WHEN I WATCH a conductor lead an orchestra, I always wonder what he is actually doing. He just stands there scanning the instrument… Read More »The Conductor