torah

This is the decree of the Torah[1] For good reason, the mitzvah of parah adumah has become identified as the ultimate chok. After all, it… Read More »Reason or Reasonableness?

BS”D Volume 38, No. 39 7 Tammuz 5784 July 13, 2024 Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Katz on the yahrzeit of his mother Sarah… Read More »Pillar of Prayer

THE WINK GIVES it away. Maybe you were supposed to see it, maybe you weren’t. But if it was at someone else while they were… Read More »The Winkly Parsha

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 Chukas

Judges: 11 1:33 In the year 2779 Yiftach HaGiladi became Judge – Shofet. Yiftach is described as a gifted warrior who was seemingly unworthy of… Read More »Haftorah Summary for Parshas Chukas

“And Moshe sent emissaries from Kadesh to the king of Edom…”(20:14) Moshe sends a delegation to the king of Edom requesting permission to pass through… Read More »The Power Of Prayer

Without water, life cannot survive. Nonetheless, millions of Jewish people survived in the parched and barren desert for forty years. How was this possible? Only… Read More »Miriam’s Well

Whoever possesses the following three traits is of the students of our father Abraham, and [whoever possesses] a different three traits is of the students… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 22(b): Seeing Nature — and Beyond – Part II

In one of the most difficult episodes in the Torah, this week we read how Moshe loses his entitlement to enter the Land he so… Read More »Symbolism Over Substance

And Korach took… (Bamidbar 16:1) What knocked Korach out of this world? He had so much working in his favor! He was very learned, and… Read More »The Ultimate Price