torah

Our daughter was just 2 years old when there was a fire in the apartment above ours. We all waited nervously on the hill outside… Read More »Fight to Love, or Love to Fight?

BS”D Volume 35, No. 38 1 Av 5781 July 10, 2021 Sponsored by Steve and Pauline Jaffe on the yahrzeit of his father Alexander Isaac… Read More »A Personal Torah?

The combination of these two sections of the Torah constitutes the question, raised by all commentators over the ages, as to whether there is a… Read More »Jews and the Land of Israel

“…This is the thing that Hashem has commanded” (30:2) In this week’s parsha, the Torah informs us that man is endowed with the ability to… Read More »Direct Connection

The Mitzvah: There is the obligation that a Jew is commanded not to take revenge. Moreover, he must not bear a grudge or even harbour… Read More »Vengeance: Revenge is Sweet

This week’s Torah portion concludes with an overview of the Jewish nation’s wanderings in the wilderness, as well as key laws and preparations associated with… Read More »The Stuff of Real Life

The portion of Matos begins with the laws governing commitments and pledges. In Torah law, words are not taken lightly and when one makes an… Read More »Oath of Office

Friday Night LAST WEEK I learned 97a in Maseches Sanhedrin, a page with which I am quite familiar. It starts an End-of-Days section, and I… Read More »Signs

A person should always accustom himself to keeping silent (lit., ‘should increase his silence’). He should speak only of matters of wisdom or matters pertaining… Read More »Chapter 2, Law 4(b) – Silence and the Road to Self-Discovery

HASHEM spoke to Moshe, saying: Pinchas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the Kohen has turned My anger away from the Children of… Read More »We Sweeten Each Other