These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1332 – Dunking Your Doughnuts… Read More »Moshe’s Premonition That “Something Like This” Was Going to Happen
BS”D Volume 38, No. 26 27 Adar II 5784 April 6, 2024 Sponsored by Gilla & Harold Saltzman in memory of his father Yosef Noach… Read More »So Close, Yet So Far
Nadav and Avihu, Aharon’s sons, each took his fire pan, put fire in them…and brought a foreign fire before Hashem that He had not commanded.[1]… Read More »The Child-free Option
Pestilence comes to the world for death penalties mentioned in the Torah which are not in the hands of the courts [to administer] and for… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 11(c): The Perennial Battle
QUESTION 56: If my child tears a few pages in a book that I’ve taken out from the library, can I scotch tape the pages… Read More »Fixing A Library Book
“As we told my lord [Yosef], we have an elderly father and a young [brother] who is a child of his old age. The boy’s… Read More »Fear Induced Lies
“When Rav Hamnuna would ascend from the river on erev Shabbos, he would lift up his eyes to see the angels of the weekday departing… Read More »Changing Places
This weeks parsha, Shmini, begins with the sacrifices brought on the eighth day of the Miluim, the dedication of the Mishkan. This had been mentioned… Read More »The End Does NOT Justify the Means
“…and they died before Hashem” (10:2) The Zohar relates that both Nadav and Avihu were under the age of twenty when they died.1 Since their… Read More »Reality Of Consequence
The wonderful festival of Pesach, celebrated in the warm circle of family and friends, provided an opportunity with each festive meal to share, sing, and… Read More »Searing Fire or Reaching Higher