These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: # 1325 Finding a $20… Read More »Eved Ivri: Rehabilitation, Not Just Reimbursement
“…and he shall provide for healing” (21:19) The Torah records that among the compensatory damages which a person who has inflicted bodily harm on another… Read More »Eternal Medicine
This week’s parsha, Mishpatim, begins “V’aileh hamishpatim–And these are the commandments.” Rashi explains that our parsha begins with the word ‘and’ in order to connect… Read More »The True Value of Five Times
As a child, whenever I arrived at this week’s Parsha, I recall feeling something of a letdown. From the beginning of Bereishis, each Parsha had… Read More »Climbing Unto Love or Falling into Lust
This parsha is called Mishpatim. Simply translated it means ordinances. The portion entails laws that deal with various torts and property damages. It discusses laws… Read More »Sealed and Delivered
Last class, we continued reviewing the final bracha of Shemoneh Esrai and briefly discussed prayer tips for Modim, the seminal expression of thanks in the… Read More »Modim: The Essential Need for Thanks
Honor your father and your mother- (Shemos 20:12) We have, as a general rule, that HASHEM does not overburden us with tasks that cannot be… Read More »This Mitzvah is the Cure
I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me.[2] Actually, the Bnei Yisrael walked out of Egypt. They probably would have preferred taking… Read More »High-Flying Geulah
This week we read the parsha of Yisro. “And Yisro, the father-in-law of Moshe, heard all that Elokim had done for Moshe and Yisroel his… Read More »Change of Heart
Yitro Volume 39, No. 17 17 Shevat 5785 February 15, 2025 Sponsored by Mrs. Faith Ginsburg on the yahrzeit of her father, Herzl Rosenson (Naftali… Read More »What Changed?