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I dedicate this week’s parsha in loving memory of my father and mentor, Jack Winston (Yisroel Ya’akov ben Tzvi, z”l). Da’as is the main topic… Read More »What Do I Know?

This week we read the parsha of Korach’s uprising against Moshe. “And Korach the son of Yitzhar, the son of K’has, the son of Levi.[16:1]”… Read More »The Unmentionable

In this week’s Torah portion, Korach foments an outright rebellion against Moshe and Aharon. He could not have chosen a more opportune moment. After the… Read More »The Other Side of Ambition

Pick up the fire-pans from the fire (and throw away the flame), for they have become holy…and make from them hammered-out sheets as a covering… Read More »Fires Not So Foreign[1]

They shall be TSITZIS for you, and when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of HASHEM to perform them, and you shall… Read More »Be Reminded

בס”ד Volume 40, No. 33 28 Sivan 5786 June 13, 2026 Sponsored by Zev and Marlene Teichman on the yahrzeit of her father Louis Leonard… Read More »See the Good

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1385 – Techeiles Today-Why Not?… Read More »The Spies Were Smitten by the Greatest Blindness There Is

In this week’s Torah portion we read of the tragic events that unfolded in the desert when the spies returned to the Jewish camp after… Read More »Parshas Shlach

“The sky is falling!” they shouted. Well not quite, but when the ten spies who went to examine the Land of Israel brought back tales… Read More »Chicken Yiddle

The word “priceless” immediately conjures up a number of images: Rembrandt’s paintings, the Hope diamond, and Ming vases, among others. Most people do not associate… Read More »Preface