These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1188 – Cho’shaid Be’keshayrim –… Read More »Presenting the Names of an All-Star Lineup!
He [Hillel] further saw a skull floating on the water. He said to it: ‘Because you drowned you were drowned, and in the end those… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 7: Spiritual Cause and Effect
BS”D Volume 36, No. 13 21 Tevet 5782 December 25, 2021 Sponsored by the Edeson & Stern families on the 3rd yahrzeit of Jacob S.… Read More »In Our Youth
It was a test for the ages. The mighty Pharaoh commanded the midwives Shifra and Puah, known to us as Yocheved and her daughter Miriam,… Read More »Growth Investment
FRIDAY NIGHT THE STORY BEGINS. We’ve seen this movie before countless times. The Jewish people move to a new country relatively peacefully. They prosper, assimilate,… Read More »Template Exile
(End of Law 7, earlier parts quoted in previous classes): He [the Torah scholar] should not speak dishonestly (lit., ‘change his words’), nor should he… Read More »Chapter 5, Law 7(d) – Truth versus Peace
He [Hillel] used to say, a boor cannot fear sin, nor can an unlearned person be pious. A bashful person cannot learn, nor can an… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 6: A Religion of Answers
The Parshiyos of Vayigash and Vayechi conclude the tribulations of Yaakov and his sons. In Parshas Vayigash, when Yoseif reveals himself to his brothers, he… Read More »Yaakov, Yoseif and the Sh’vatim
The last seventeen years of the life of our father Jacob are ones of apparent tranquility and comfort. Even though he is already in Egypt… Read More »Jacob Looks Towards the Future
Shimon and Levi are brothers; stolen instruments are their weapons. Let my soul not enter their counsel; my honor, you shall not join their assembly,… Read More »A Strong Dose of Truth