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This week’s parsha is very complex. It starts off talking about Machatzis HaShekel, the obligatory half shekel given yearly for public sacrifices. Then it discusses… Read More »Complexities

Things don’t just happen by themselves. And yet, when the Jewish people built a golden calf while Moses was away on the mountaintop receiving the… Read More »Flaming Desire

This week’s parsha, Ki Tisa, contains the Chait Ha’Egel {the Sin of the Golden Calf} and the subsequent breaking of the Luchos {tablets upon which… Read More »Freedom

Now, bring Aharon your brother near to yourself.[2] Moshe, claims a midrash[3], was not pleased to hear this. Recognizing that avodah is one of the… Read More »Too Busy To Serve[1]

BS”D Volume 40, No. 20 11 Adar 5786 February 28, 2026 Sponsored by the Vogel family on the yahrzeit of Tzipporah bat Isaac (Argand) Schneider… Read More »Heartfelt

  These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1372 A Purim Potpourri.… Read More »Shoshanas Yakov Insights

TETZAVEH Yechezkel 43:10–27 The Jewish nation has undergone much change and spiritual degeneration during its nearly two thousand years of exile. We often wonder how… Read More »Hashem’s Everlasting View of His People

This week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, deals primarily with the appointment of the Kohanim {priests} and their garments. Moshe is told: “V’atah {And you} hakrev elecha {should… Read More »Drawing Close to… You

This week “hosts” the second of the special Maftirs, Parashas Zachor, that we insert at this time of year because of Purim and Pesach. Whether… Read More »The Battle Continues

And HASHEM spoke to Moshe saying: “Speak to the Children of Israel, and have them take for Me an offering; from every person whose heart… Read More »A Golden Investment Opportunity