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The Mitzvah: The daily offering of the Olas Tamid, Continual Elevation-Offering was made up of 2 parts – one lamb offered at the start of… Read More »Tamid: From Start to Finish

“On the seventeenth of Tammuz the Tablets were broken” (Ta’anis 26a) Five calamities occurred on the seventeenth of Tammuz. The first of these calamities is… Read More »In Control

Life sustaining water, eau d’vivre, bottled at the source from the most pristine and exotic locations line the shelves in every supermarket, each bottled in… Read More »Still Waters Run Deep

Following the apportionment of the Land of Israel based on patrilineal tribe, “the daughters of Tzelofchod son of Chefer son of Gilad son of Machir… Read More »The Time is Now!

GPS: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS Is it fair that my Wife has a GPS in her car and I don’t, when she has the street savvy… Read More »Holidays, Technologies & the “Reel” World

This week the most illustrious career in Biblical history begins its final chapters. Moshe is officially informed that he will pass on and is told… Read More »Moshe’s Last Stand

Friday Night IN NEXT WEEK’S parsha the Jewish people will actually go out and fulfill the mitzvah at the beginning of this week’s parsha, to… Read More »Pinchas vs. Bilaam

A person should always accustom himself to keeping silent (lit., ‘should increase his silence’). He should speak only of matters of wisdom or matters pertaining… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 4(a) – Speech: Expressions of the Soul

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape 820 — K’rias Shemah… Read More »The Best Things in Life Are Different When They Come for Free

How can I curse whom G-d has not cursed, and how can I invoke wrath if HASHEM has not been angered? For from their beginning,… Read More »We Dwell Alone… (With HASHEM)