torah

Yeshaya 54:1 This week’s haftorah displays Hashem’s boundless love for the Jewish people. In the end, after a long painful exile, the Jewish people will… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Ki Seitzei

This week’s insights are dedicated to my truly amazing Mom, who in my teenage years sent me the most lovingly clever letter: borrowing song titles… Read More »CSI: Who Are You? Jew, Who, Jew, Who?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1261 – Did I Say… Read More »Serenity at the Extremes: We All Struggle—But That’s a Good Sign

This week’s parsha is replete with a potpourri of commandments, all encompassing both negative and positive directives that affect our dealings with fellow humans as… Read More »Hide and No Seek

Shammai said: Make your Torah study fixed, say little and do much, and receive everyone with a cheerful countenance. This mishna was authored by Shammai,… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 15(a): The Song of the Soul

The story Two brothers, Avishai and Eliyah were walking home from school together, when they heard someone screaming from an apartment in the building to… Read More »Aveida Mida’as – Returning Something Intentionally Lost

QUESTION 85:  An employee in a certain restaurant sometimes offers me free food or charges me less. Is this all right? The employee works at… Read More »Extra Food in a Restaurant

Many parents have the custom to bless their children on Shabbos evening with the verses of Birkas Kohanim. While doing so they place both hands… Read More »Two Hands

“And Yaakov said to them, “Brothers, where are you from?” (Bereshith 29:4) Yaakov’s reference to the shepherds of Charan as “brothers” was not considered sheker,… Read More »Relatively Speaking

Friday Night August 23 and 30, 8:30 pm Israel time: In Advance Of The Ten Days, two sessions on rising to the task between Rosh… Read More »Torah Consistency