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Friday Night IT IS AMAZING how so much can come down to something so little. As is known, in the first word of Sefer Vayikra… Read More »Aleph

BS”D Volume 36, No. 24 9 Adar II 5782 March 12, 2022 Sponsored by Howard and Rosanne Benn in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary… Read More »A Mystery

This week we welcome in the Jewish month of Adar—in actuality, Adar II, as a leap year on the Jewish calendar involves a full extra… Read More »What Ukrainian Victims Can Teach Us About Happiness

And Moshe did; according to all that HASHEM had commanded him, so he did. It came to pass in the first month, in the second… Read More »The Job of the Jews

Hallel The Gemara in Pesachim (117a) describes Hallel. The Neviim decreed that Hallel be said at Yom Tov and at a time that the Jews… Read More »The Shir — Hallel at Purim and Pesach

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