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The Story “Elie, I saved you a seat!” called Avishai. “The lunch room is really busy today.” The two boys put their lunches on the… Read More »Salt

It was certainly much easier to expiate a transgression two thousand years ago than it is today. In ancient times, the transgressor would bring a… Read More »A Man from Among Us

“If the anointed Kohein will sin…” This week’s parsha records four of the six offerings that fall under the penumbra of the Korban Chatas –… Read More »Curtain Call

Yeshaya 43:21 This week’s haftorah displays Hashem’s unbelievable compassion for the Jewish people. The prophet Yeshaya begins by characterizing the Jewish people as the nation… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Vayikra

It is a known, clear matter that the love of the Holy One, blessed be He, does not become bound to a person’s heart until… Read More »Chapter 10, Law 6 – How to Fall in Love

And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. And he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the… Read More »Actoverts

The Holy One, blessed be He, acquired five possessions in His world. They are: (a) the Torah, (b) heaven and earth, (c) Abraham, (d) Israel,… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 10(b): Being Possessed With G-d – Part 2

Bezalel…did everything that Hashem commanded Moshe.[2] Not just everything that Moshe commanded Bezalel did Bezalel do, but what Hashem had commanded Moshe![3] His great wisdom… Read More »Practically Right

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1154 Does The Husband’s Early… Read More »A Tzadik on Someone Else’s Back

Part One of this class covered the Creation of Man and Woman, as it relates to internal power in women and external power in men.… Read More »Obligation or Privilege?: Part II