torah

How different can two brothers be? As different as black and white. The Torah describes how the twin brothers Jacob and Esau were already veering… Read More »A Question of Honor

This week’s Torah portion begins and ends with discussion of the relationship between the twin brothers Ya’akov (Jacob) and Esav (Esau), from their pre-natal bickering… Read More »Appreciating the Value of Our Blessings

After a debilitating stroke, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, continued to say a weekly mussar shmues (ethical sermon)… Read More »With Death Do Us Apart!

Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, embarked on his mission to the land of Haran and the house of Besuel to find a wife for his master’s beloved… Read More »For Goodness Sake

When the wise man eats the little which is sufficient (lit., ‘fitting’) for him, he should eat it only in his house at his table.… Read More »Chapter 5, Law 2 – Of Rabbis and Sheep

And the life of Sarah was one hundred years and twenty years and seven years; [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. And… Read More »Bigger FROM the Akeida

BS”D Volume 36, No. 5 24 Marcheshvan 5782 October 30, 2021 Sponsored by the Parness family in memory of Max Parness a”h In this week’s… Read More »Monetary Lessons

Soro’s lifetime was a hundred years, and twenty years, and seven years – the years of Soro’s life.[2] “Hashem knows the days of the perfect.”[3]… Read More »Perfect Truth

Rabban Gamliel the son of Rabbi Yehuda the Prince said: Good is Torah study together with a worldly occupation, for the exertion in both makes… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 2(a) : Torah Study vs. Earning a Livelihood – Part I

The Torah records for us the years of the life of our mother Sarah. It is done in a lengthy fashion counting one hundred years,… Read More »Sarah Lived the Good Life