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Chinuch is everything. Life is an educated guess, and the more educated you are, the less you have to guess what to do. It is… Read More »Good Education

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