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This week Parshas Chukas is read here in Israel and Parshas Korach is read outside of Israel. Chukas begins: “Zos chukas haTorah {these are the… Read More »Decree of the Torah

” … a man who will die in the tent” (19:14) The Talmud interprets the above verse in a homiletical manner. “Tent” alludes to the… Read More »Egocentricity Prevents Internalizing Torah

Crime and Punishment. In a corporeal world, the correlation of a jail sentence to a crime does not symbolize a cogent philosophical message. Of course,… Read More »Crime and Punishment

LAST WEEK I received a forwarded email that was titled, “Joseph Goebbels Could Have Written This in the 1930s.” They weren’t kidding. It was a page… Read More »Not Liked…Again

Korach took… We never do find out what Korach took. Which leads to the famous comment that Korach tookhimself to stand apart from the main… Read More »No Privilege For Special Souls1

They assembled against Moshe and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, for the entire congregation are all holy, and HASHEM… Read More »Korach Took – The Heat

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1342 – The Case of… Read More »“Fake News” Is Not a Modern-Day Invention

BS”D Volume 39, No. 35 2 Tammuz 5785 June 28, 2025 Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Katzn on the yahrzeit of his mother Sarah… Read More »Out of This World

Well, two weeks and 7 pounds after my trip to the United Steaks of America, I’ve returned home to Israel. I wanted to apologize for… Read More »Peanuts to Watermelons

How do you put down an insurrection? Sometimes, all it takes is calling their bluff. Moses had to face just such an insurrection in the… Read More »The Easy Way In