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Friday Night IT’S ALWAYS HARD to believe that we have arrived at this point, two parshios away from completing another cycle of Torah reading. Imagine… Read More »Torah the Blessing

[Yaakov] said, “But it’s still the middle of the day; this is not the time to gather in the livestock. Why not water the sheep… Read More »Lying Down On The Job

Chana’s is the story of one woman’s prayer. That a woman should be recognized as a role model for prayer is interesting given that, in… Read More »The Story of Chana: Prayer with a Purpose

According to the Zohar, Birkas Kohanim is meant to be recited each time with the same joy that Aharon felt on the final day of… Read More »Of Prisons and Fires

You know that a certain teacher reuses his tests from previous years. Can you study using tests from prior years, knowing that one of them… Read More »Studying Using Old Tests

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