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The Story It was Leora’s birthday, and she sat in her room with her three closest friends, opening the gifts that they brought for her.… Read More »Astrology

Seeing is believing. Most of us are natural skeptics, and it is difficult to convince us of something we have not seen with our own… Read More »Doctors and Pilots

Juxtapositions. The Talmud analyzes them and expounds upon them. After all, every word of the Torah is as important as the next, and the positioning… Read More »Branches Of The Judiciary

THE TORAH MENTIONS in three locations, including in this week’s parsha, that we are not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk. This is… Read More »Milk & Meat

Rabbi Meir (Mai-eer) said: Anyone who engages in Torah study for its own sake (‘lishma’) merits many things. Not only that, but the entire world… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 1(a): What G-d Really Wants – Part I

See, I present before you today a brachah and a kelalah. The brachah: that you listen to Hashem’s commandments…[1] Chazal[2] see in this pasuk a… Read More »Bread, Salt, and Feinshmekkers

BS”D Volume 38, No. 46 27 Av 5784 August 31, 2024 Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of his father Harav Yitzchak ben… Read More »Accounting

When I stand in line in a pizza shop or bagel store, I anticipate the counter fellow asking me, “So what do you need?” That’s… Read More »Needs and Desires

Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person… Read More »Parsha Summary for Parshas Reeh

Isaiah 54:11 – 55:5 This week’s Haftorah is the third Haftorah of Consolation. Yishayuhu Hanavi described the utopian times of Mashiach when the veiling values… Read More »Haftorah Summary for Parshas Reeh