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This week’s parshios are replete with moral directives. The Torah does not just involve itself in what we would consider “religious” and ceremonial matters. Indeed… Read More »Love Your Neighbor

This past Sunday we celebrated our 33rd anniversary dinner in the Atrium Plaza amid an outpouring of heartwarming support for the yeshiva. Over 500 participants… Read More »Different Strokes for Different Folks

The kohen shall look, and behold, the nega tzaraas has been healed from the metzora.[2] Anyone who has found it important to improve their compliance… Read More »No Need For An Emetive[1]

When a (Nega) affliction of Tzoras is on a person you shall bring him to a Cohen. (Vayikra 13:3) Tzarass is woefully misunderstood. It is… Read More »To Get It with a Hint

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1377 – An In Vitro… Read More »The Lesson of House Tzaraas: Nothing Is Your Stuff

בס”ד Volume 40, No. 26 1 Iyar 5786 April 18, 2026 Sponsored by Rona and Aaron Lerner in memory of his father Yaakov Yonah ben… Read More »Close to Home

You know how sometimes during a conversation you start to zoom out because the topic fails to grab your attention? That’s kind of what this… Read More »Pure Covenant

בס”ד 24 Nissan 5786 April 11, 2026 Dedicated in gratitude to Hashem on Hamaayan’s 39th “birthday” and in memory of Moreinu Ha’Rav Gedaliah ben Zev… Read More »Animal School

The tiny bundle of pink flesh, with the tightly clenched fists and eyes, emits a lusty cry, and suddenly, all faces are wreathed in smiles.… Read More »A Matter Of Life And Death

They offered before Hashem foreign fire that He had not commanded them.[2] Chazal sense that the offering of the fire per se was not the… Read More »Feeling It[1]