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The Torah reading of this week continues with the count of the different families within the tribe of Levi. We are aware that this tribe… Read More »Levite Leadership

Yossi ben (son of) Yochanan of Jerusalem said: Let your house be open wide, let the poor be members of your household, and do not… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 5(a): Charity Begins at Home

Shoftim 13:2 This week’s haftorah shares with us an incredible perspective on sanctity and self control. The focus of the haftorah is the heavenly message… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Naso

Friday Night IT WAS QUITE the job taking care of the Mishkan. It was one thing to have to assemble and then disassemble it every… Read More »Divine Hinge Pin

So (koh) shall you bless the Bnei Yisrael, saying to them…[2] A midrash[3] links the “so”/koh of our pasuk with the same word in the… Read More »Prerequisite to Divine Blessing

The following is the service of the sons of Kohas in the Tent of Meeting-the Holy of Holies. When the camp is about to travel,… Read More »The Torah Within

BS”D Volume 35, No. 31 11 Sivan 5781 May 22, 2021 With 176 verses, Naso is the longest single Parashah in the Torah. R’ Yitzchak… Read More »The Longest Parashah

Are you old enough to remember vinyl records? Do you remember how a scratched record could skip backwards, repeating a section over and over? The… Read More »Beloved Broken Records

How are such people [who are spiritually “sick”] healed? A person who for example has a bad temper should act as follows: If he is… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 2(b) – From Extreme to Extreme

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1163 Avoiding Yichud: Must the… Read More »Keep This in Mind When Listening to Birkas Kohanim