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The six hundred thousand people gathered around Mount Sinai didn’t discuss it beforehand. They didn’t consult with each other and decide on a consensus response.… Read More »Spontaneous Consensus

Though the marquee event of this week’s portion surrounds the epic event of Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, there are… Read More »What’s News

And Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and HASHEM led the sea with the strong east wind all night, and He made the… Read More »Constant Miracles

BS”D Volume 39, No. 16 9 Shevat 5785 February 8, 2025 Sponsored by Irving and Arline Katz on the yahrzeit of grandmother Henya Rachel bat… Read More »Seeing the Big Picture

Moshe took Yosef’s bones with him, for he had firmly adjured the Bnei Yisrael, saying, “You shall bring up my bones from here with you.”[2]… Read More »Dem Bones

Matza in Mitzraim and for Forty Years The Problem In the Hagada of Pesach, Rabban Gamliel says the reason for the matza is that the… Read More »The Mitzva of Matza and the Mon: Beshalach 5785

WHY ARE YOU praying to Me? What kind of question was that? The Jewish people were helplessly trapped between the Egyptian army and the Red… Read More »At What Cost?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1323 Lechem Mishna: What Exactly… Read More »The Zechus of Suffering on Behalf of Others

In this week’s parsha of B’sahlach, the Bnei Yisroel (children of Israel) safely passed through the Yam Suf (Sea of Reeds), after which, it came… Read More »The Great Mirror in the Sky

This week’s portion begins with the event that merits the title of the book – Exodus. The Jews finally are chased from Egypt. Hastily, they… Read More »Words of Remembrance