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It must have been chaos in the desert, a city planner’s nightmare, before the encampment of the Jewish people was reorganized in the second year… Read More »Chaos in the Desert

The Book of Numbers begins just that way – with many numbers. It counts the Jews who were in the desert and assigns unique divisions… Read More »Counted Out

Women are obligated in prayer, and therefore are also included in the prohibition not to eat before they have “prayed for their blood.” However, even… Read More »Women and Children

THE DESERT IS an unforgiving place, unless God is leading you through it with great miracles. To most of the world, a desert is a… Read More »What’s For Desert?

But if you do not listen to Me and do not perform all these commandments and if you despise My statutes and reject My ordinances,… Read More »It Still Whispers, “Shabbos”

There are four types of students (lit., among those who sit before the Sages) — a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sifter. The… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 18: The Gift of Selective Memory

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1293 – A Tragic Holocaust… Read More »Focusing In on The Opening Words of the Parsha – Part 1: Teleichu

Then they will confess their sin and the sin of their forefathers…and also for having behaved toward Me haphazardly. I, too, will behave toward them… Read More »No Excuses

BS”D Volume 38, No. 33 24 Iyar 5784 June 1, 2024 Our Parashah opens: “If you will follow My Chukim / decrees and observe My… Read More »Earn an ‘A’ for Effort

This week we read the double parsha of B’har/B’chukosai, thereby completing the Sefer {Book} of Vayikra. B’har begins with the laws of sh’mita–the Torah’s prohibition… Read More »A Back-Handed Compliment