torah

The opening words of this week’s Torah reading have been repeated often throughout the entire discourse by Moshe with the Jewish people, which constitutes the… Read More »When We Come, Not If

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1260 Mezzuzah – Case of… Read More »Vidui for What Could Have Been and Should Have Been

This week we read the parsha of Ki Savo. It begins with two commandments applicable to when Bnei Yisroel will dwell in the Land of… Read More »Influencing Others

This week we read Parshas Ki Savo. “And it will be ‘ki savo’ {when you will come} to the land that Hashem, your G-d, has… Read More »All That We Have is From Hashem

Today. It’s a powerful word. It is used by doctors to define the exact moment their patients are to stop over-indulging, smoking, and drinking. It… Read More »The Today Show

Shammai said, make your Torah study fixed, say little and do much, and receive everyone with a cheerful countenance. Last week we discussed Shammai’s first… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 15(b): Actions – Not Words

Friday Night ABOUT FORTY YEARS ago I had what was to be my first of four hernia operations. In those days it was still treated… Read More »Waking Up

…Neither should a person be one prone to arguments, nor one obsessed with jealousy or obsessed with lust, nor a pursuer of honor. Likewise did… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 7(d) – The Pain of Inexistence, Part I

To give to others is the best way to show you love them. Indeed, the Hebrew word “Ahava – Love” is a derivative of the… Read More »A Tap on the Shoulder

If a man has a wayward and rebellious son, who does not listen to his father or his mother, and they chasten him, and [he… Read More »The Same Voice