torah

Friday Night WHAT IS A false prophet? It’s when someone tells you that you made money in the stock market, but they got it wrong.… Read More »On God’s Page

…Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., ‘one of a wide soul’), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 7(b) – The Power of the Human Eye, Part I

Our reading this week begins, “See I have placed before you today blessing and curse. The blessing, if you listen to the Commandments of Hashem… Read More »Choosing Life, Every Day

Yeshaya 54:11   This week’s haftorah is directed towards Zion displaying her illustrious future in the time of Mashiach. The haftorah begins with the disturbing… Read More »Parshas Reeh

You are children of HASHEM, your G-d. You shall neither cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. For you are… Read More »The Most Uplifting Experience

BS”D Volume 35, No. 42 29 Av 5781 August 7, 2021 Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of his father Harav Yitzchak ben… Read More »A Fence of Thorns

SHMUEL1, 20:18   This week we read a special Haftora portion in light of the fact that this Shabbos is Erev Rosh Chodesh. This particular… Read More »Haftorah Commentary – Day Before Rosh Chodesh

Parshas “R’ay” begins with the Moshe saying: “R’ay anochi nosain lifnaichem ha’yom b’racha u’klalah – See that I place before you today a blessing and… Read More »Exchanging Gold for Copper

“…you shall not send him empty-handed; you shall adorn him with gifts…”(15:13,14) After six years of servitude, the Torah requires that the Jewish slave be… Read More »Restoring Dignity

Since the dawn of human history, mankind has faced, in one guise or another, the same temptations that confronted the very first man and woman,… Read More »Fall – and get back up!