torah

David Hamelech understood the human soul better than anyone can imagine. He sought out words that would offer help at every level and wanted to… Read More »Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Seven

God Creates Man…Alone. The Torah (Genesis, Cpt. 1) tells the story of how God creates Adam. The text then relates how, after making Adam, God… Read More »Understanding our Purpose, Understanding our Role Part I

God said to Avram, “Go forth from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show… Read More »Location, Location, Location

Saved from the Great Flood (the Mabul), Noah was moved to give thanks to G-d for sparing him and his family. Immediately upon leaving the… Read More »Sweet Simple Symphony

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: # 1177 – Teaching Torah… Read More »The Path to Decadence Begins Very Subtly

BS”D Volume 35, No. 2 6 Marcheshvan 5781 October 24, 2020 Sponsored by Mrs. Esther Liberman and family in memory of husband and father Yaakov… Read More »But Will You Save Others?

Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words. (Breishis 11:1) one language: Loshon HaKodesh. The Holy Tongue – Rashi This is quite… Read More »Something’s Lost in the Translation

For forty days and forty nights, the Great Flood seethed over the surface of the earth, sweeping it clean of the corruption that had polluted… Read More »The Sign of the Olive

“These are the offspring of Noah – Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generation; Noah walked with G-d.” (Beraishis/Genesis 6:9) Why does Noah’s… Read More »Making Something of Nothing

This week we read the parsha of Noach. A mere ten generations after creation, the world had reached a state of depravity that necessitated its… Read More »What a Deal!