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Purim is called by the name Yom HaKippurim… Zohar Purim and Yom Kippur, two seemingly opposite days, are really related to each other, according to… Read More »We Revel in Reality

AT FIRST IT might not seem that there is very much connecting this week’s parsha and Purim, other than the fact they are both on… Read More »Bad Good

This week we read parshas Ki Tisa. The central happening of this parsha is the chait ha’egel {the sin of the golden calf} and the… Read More »What’s Bad is Good

A strange thing happened after Moses brought down the second set of tablets from Mount Sinai. The people took one glance at him, and they… Read More »Dazzled by the Light

Now you shall command the Children of Israel that they should take for you pure, pressed olive oil for illumination, to kindle the lamp continuously.… Read More »Brighter is the Result

I will sanctify the Ohel Moed and the mizbe’ach…I will dwell among the Bnei Yisrael…that they shall know that I am Hashem their G-d Who… Read More »Eternal Mishkan

  These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1326 Wearing A Gartel?… Read More »Avnei Miluim and Avnei Shoham: Stones of Empathy and Stones of Action

PURIM IS THE least straightforward holiday of all of them. There are some who treat Purim as a time to let go and have a… Read More »Holy Clothing

BS”D Volume 39, No. 20 8 Adar 5785 March 8, 2025 Sponsored by Mrs. Rochelle Dimont and family on the yahrzeit of mother and grandmother… Read More »Clothes

This week we read the parsha of Tetzaveh and then move into the holiday of Purim. This week also marked the end of the shloshim… Read More »The Hidden Essence