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However, the Second Temple they were engaged in Torah mitzvot, and acts of kindness, why was it destroyed? Due to the fact that there was… Read More »To See Good in Others

Take Yehoshua…place some of your majesty upon him, so that the entire assembly of the Bnei Yisrael will take heed.[2] What would have been so… Read More »Howling At The Moon[1]

This Dvar Torah was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #64, ‘The Yarmulka: At Home and In… Read More »The Double Vov: Sometimes a Vov of Connection, Sometimes of Division

בס”ד Volume 40, No. 36 19 Tamuz 5786 July 4, 2026 Our Parashah opens with Pinchas’ reward for his self-sacrifice described at the end of… Read More »Wages Earned

Pinchas was a hero. Who knows how many souls he saved the day he “saw, arose, and took his spear in his hand” and avenged… Read More »Hero Within

This week we read the parsha of Pinchas. Bil’am, upon seeing that he was unable to harm Bnei Yisroel (the Children of Israel) through cursing,… Read More »Glass House Real Estate

At the end of Parshas Pinchos, Hashem tell Moshe Rabbeinu about the forthcoming end of his life, and the passing of the leadership to the… Read More »Loyal Leadership

Two thousand years ago, Roman armies surrounded and laid siege to Jerusalem, and life inside the city became one continuous purgatory. Huge boulders, flung by… Read More »Breaches in the Wall

“I admit before You [Hashem] the living and everlasting King, that you returned my soul with mercy, great is Your Faithfulness!” The first thing a… Read More »The Prayer of Modeh Ani

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: ##1387 – May A Kohain… Read More »Why Hashem Left Some Things Unexplained: The Deeper Lesson of Parah Aduma