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A person must direct all his actions towards ‘knowing G-d’ alone. His sitting, standing, and speech should all be directed to this. How? When he… Read More »Chapter 3, Law 2 – Playing with Fire

The original version of this class was written in April 1999, shortly after the passing of Lifsha bas Mordechai HaCohen, Lucy Rosenfeld, my grandfather’s second… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 16: What Are Rabbis For?

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death,… Read More »To Choose Life

Hoshea 14: 2 – 10; Yoel 2: 11-27; Micha 7: 18-20 This week’s haftorah quite appropriately focuses on teshuvah – repentance.In the previous verses, the… Read More »Haftorah Commentary – Vayeilech

BS”D Volume 35, No. 47 5 Tishrei 5782 September 11, 2021 Sponsored by Aaron and Rona Lerner in memory of their mothers Fayga Reva bat… Read More »Prayer’s Two Legs

Friday Night THE TALMUD PROVIDES a sneak preview of what will happen after history comes to an end: How can you say that it is… Read More »Time of Love

Moshe called to Yehoshua and said to him before the eyes of all of Yisrael, “Be strong and courageous. You will enter (tavo) with the… Read More »Self-Shrinking

Perhaps a person will say, ‘Since lust, honor and the like are a bad path which remove a person from the world, I will separate… Read More »Chapter 3, Law 1 – Man as Body and Soul

If there is one operative word on Rosh HaShana that the Good Year balloon pulls along its banner, it is the word, “HaMelech” – “The… Read More »Fill It Up with Super

BS”D Volume 35, No. 46 27 Elul 5781 September 4, 2021 Sponsored by The Greengart and Lerman families in memory of father Zvi ben Ben… Read More »A New Way to Learn