These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1390 – Saying VaYechulu Friday… Read More »The Epiphany of Rabi Yishmael ben Elisha: How Great Are the Words of the Sages!
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person… Read More »Parsha Summary for Parshas Shoftim
Isaiah 51:12 -52:12G-d, speaking through Yishayuhu the Navi, contrasts the situation of Israel while in exile to the way things will be at the time… Read More »Haftorah Summary for Parshas Shoftim
This week we read the parsha of Shoftim {Judges}. “Shoftim v’shotrim tetane l’cha {Judges and officers you shall appoint for yourselves} in all the gates… Read More »Judge Over Yourself
“If a corpse will be found on the land…” (21:1) When a Jew is murdered and the perpetrator is not found, the city closest to… Read More »Protection For The Way
The Story It was Leora’s birthday, and she sat in her room with her three closest friends, opening the gifts that they brought for her.… Read More »Astrology
Seeing is believing. Most of us are natural skeptics, and it is difficult to convince us of something we have not seen with our own… Read More »Doctors and Pilots
Juxtapositions. The Talmud analyzes them and expounds upon them. After all, every word of the Torah is as important as the next, and the positioning… Read More »Branches Of The Judiciary
THE TORAH MENTIONS in three locations, including in this week’s parsha, that we are not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk. This is… Read More »Milk & Meat
Rabbi Meir (Mai-eer) said: Anyone who engages in Torah study for its own sake (‘lishma’) merits many things. Not only that, but the entire world… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 1(a): What G-d Really Wants – Part I