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GPS: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS Is it fair that my Wife has a GPS in her car and I don’t, when she has the street savvy… Read More »Holidays, Technologies & the “Reel” World

This week the most illustrious career in Biblical history begins its final chapters. Moshe is officially informed that he will pass on and is told… Read More »Moshe’s Last Stand

Friday Night IN NEXT WEEK’S parsha the Jewish people will actually go out and fulfill the mitzvah at the beginning of this week’s parsha, to… Read More »Pinchas vs. Bilaam

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(a) – Speech: Expressions of the Soul

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape 820 — K’rias Shemah… Read More »The Best Things in Life Are Different When They Come for Free

How can I curse whom G-d has not cursed, and how can I invoke wrath if HASHEM has not been angered? For from their beginning,… Read More »We Dwell Alone… (With HASHEM)

BS”D Volume 35, No. 36 16 Tammuz 5781 June 26, 2021 Sponsored by Mrs. Rochelle Dimont and family, on the yahrzeit of grandfather and great-grandfather… Read More »The Power of Speech

How can I curse, what G-d has not cursed?…For from its origins I see it, rock-like. From high places I see it.[2] Three blessings constitute… Read More »Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion

Micha 5:6 This week’s haftorah reveals to us Hashem’s incredible love for His people. The prophet Micha opens by comparing the Jewish nation to a… Read More »Haftora Commentary Parshas Balak

The Talmud incisively comments that it is not the mouse that is a thief,but, rather, it is the hole in the wall that allows the… Read More »Balak’s Blind Hatred