Shammai said: Make your Torah study fixed, say little and do much, and receive everyone with a cheerful countenance. This mishna was authored by Shammai,… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 15(a): The Song of the Soul
The story Two brothers, Avishai and Eliyah were walking home from school together, when they heard someone screaming from an apartment in the building to… Read More »Aveida Mida’as – Returning Something Intentionally Lost
QUESTION 85: An employee in a certain restaurant sometimes offers me free food or charges me less. Is this all right? The employee works at… Read More »Extra Food in a Restaurant
Many parents have the custom to bless their children on Shabbos evening with the verses of Birkas Kohanim. While doing so they place both hands… Read More »Two Hands
“And Yaakov said to them, “Brothers, where are you from?” (Bereshith 29:4) Yaakov’s reference to the shepherds of Charan as “brothers” was not considered sheker,… Read More »Relatively Speaking
Friday Night August 23 and 30, 8:30 pm Israel time: In Advance Of The Ten Days, two sessions on rising to the task between Rosh… Read More »Torah Consistency
…Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., ‘one of a wide soul’), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 7(c) – The Power of the Human Eye, Part II
The traditional naming of the five books and the weekly readings in the Torah is done by simply using the first uncommon word of the… Read More »The Power of a Bribe
If a matter eludes you in judgment, between blood and blood, between judgment and judgment, or between lesion and lesion, words of dispute in your… Read More »We Are Sanctified
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1258 – Brachos on the… Read More »Discharged from Service for Talking While Donning Tefillin?!