torah

Hashem allows us certain moments when we can see clearly His great love for Klal Yisrael. These auspicious times come without any particular warning, and… Read More »Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Six

One of the most famous disputes cited in the Talmud is between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua and relates to the halachic status of the… Read More »Uninterrupted Prayer

The dove returned to him at eventide, and behold it had plucked an olive leaf in its mouth; so Noah knew that the water had… Read More »Chayn and Redemption

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