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 Shabbos Night PARASHAS ZACHOR is the Maftir of Para-shas Tetzaveh except, like this year, it is a Purim Meshulash. Therefore, it is pushed up one Shabbos to Para-shas Terumah, this week’s parsha,… Read More »A Question of Heart

I think that we can all agree that it is difficult and challenging to part with one’s wealth on behalf of an altruistic cause that… Read More »Parting With My Money

Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin zt”l was in Polish Lithuania at a time when rabbinic schools were suffering from extreme poverty. In his book Oznaim L’Torah (and… Read More »Heartily Giving

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1151 Shul Shortcuts – Does… Read More »Mishkan Boards Trace Their Yichus to the Family Trees

BS”D Volume 35, No. 19 8 Adar 5781 February 20, 2021 Sponsored by Rochelle Dimont on the yahrzeits of her father-in-law Rabbi Shmuel Elchanan Dimont… Read More »A Home for Us

Rabbi Yossi ben (son of) Kisma said: One time I was walking along the way and a certain man met me. He greeted me and… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 9: Buying the World to Come

They shall make a sanctuary for Me, and I will dwell among them.[2] The inference is clear. Hashem does not, c”v, want nor need a… Read More »Holy Discord

It was breathtakingly beautiful, but ordinary human eyes never feasted on it. Secluded in the Holy of Holies, the holy Ark of the Torah was… Read More »A Heart of Wood

Abie and Benji began walking back from their visit to the Kotel, to the parking lot where their bus was due to arrive. “I’m glad… Read More »The Kotel

How is the appropriate love [one should have for G-d]? It is that one loves G-d a great, excessive, extreme, and exceedingly intense love until… Read More »Chapter 10, Law 3 – Crazy for G-d