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BS”D Volume 35, No. 29 26 Iyar 5781 May 7, 2021 Sponsored by David and Micheline Peller on the yahrzeit of her father Baruch ben… Read More »This Land is My Land? Your Land?

Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying…when you come into the land that I give you, the land should observe a Shabbos rest for… Read More »The Strength to be Pure

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1160 – The Mahram of… Read More »Cheating is Forbidden — Honesty is the Best Policy as Well

This week we read the Tochaha, a series of unimaginable curses that, with prescient clarity, foretold the horrors that were destined to befall our people… Read More »No One to Hide From

Friday Night ON ONE HAND I’d rather not talk about it, especially so soon after it happened. I do not know all the facts, nor… Read More »Bigger Picture

The reading of these two sections of the Torah concludes the book of Vayikra – the book that contains most of the commandments given to… Read More »This is the Reality We Face in a Sabbatical Year

And HASHEM said to Moshe: ‘Say to the Kohanim, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them: “To a (dead) person he shall… Read More »Leadership By Example

And how does a person accustom himself in these qualities (i.e., the middle path of each character trait) until he acquires them? He should act… Read More »Chapter 1, Law 7 – Jewish Psychology

Shimon the Righteous was of the last survivors of the Men of the Great Assembly. He used to say, the world is based upon three… Read More »Chapter 1, Mishna 2: Patterns of the Universe

The current period on the Jewish calendar, the weeks between Passover and Shavuos, are called the “Y’mei Sefirah,” days of of counting. The Omer, the… Read More »The Day the Tears Dry