Based on material from: Our Bodies, Our Souls, by Tsiporah Heller (Targum/Feldheim, publisher) Our final installment of “Glimpses of Jewish Femininity” explores the important connection… Read More »Glimpses of Jewish Femininity Part III
QUESTION 66: The Talmud (Kedushin 26a) says that when Rav Idi bar Avin bought land, he reserved the right to ‘close the sale’ either with… Read More »Driving Hard Bargains
“[Yosef] sent his brothers away. As they were leaving he told them, ‘Don’t argue on the road.’” (Bereshith 45:24) Yosef was not worried that they… Read More »Torah Battles
BREISHIS… In the beginning of G-d creating the heavens and the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and… Read More »Really SOMETHING
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1176 – Chupa: Inside or… Read More »Midrashim Speak to Us in Code
In several places in our parshah, Rashi sees discontinuity in the process of Creation. Some things begin, pause, and are continued later. The waters that… Read More »Creation, Interrupted
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: The 48 Ways: 33(b) – Does Israel Know Better? Part II
Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) explains that Adom’s eating of the forbidden fruit brought about a confusion between good and bad. This state remained until… Read More »Creation and the Tikun of Torah
BS”D Volume 35, No. 1 29 Tishrei 5781 October 17, 2020 Sponsored by the Parness family in memory of Anna Parness a”h Martin and Michelle… Read More »The Kindness in Creation
This week’s opening parsha of the Torah can be viewed as having bookends. There are two main characters in the story of humanity that are… Read More »Make a Lasting Impact!