Parshas Re’eh
Print PDF By Rabbi Shimmy Sternfield “עַשֵּׂר תְּעַשֵּׂר אֵת כָּל תְּבוּאַת זַרְעֶךָ” (פרק י”ד, פסוק כ”ב) “You shall tithe the entire crop of your planting.” When introducing the requirement for one to tithe one’s crops, the Torah uses a “double expression” of “עַשֵּׂר תְּעַשֵּׂר” (literally, “Tithe, you shall tithe”). The חֲתַם סוֹפֵר cites two comments […]
Hashem’s Beloved Family
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier, Rosh Kollel In דברים, י”ד:א, Deuteronomy 14:1, it states, “You are children of Hashem, your G-d, you shall not cut yourselves, nor make a bald patch between your eyes for the dead.” The Torah prohibits one to make a permanent scar on oneself due to one’s feeling of […]
Parshas Eikev
Print PDF By Rabbi Shimmy Sternfield (וְהיָהָ עקֵֶב תִּשְׁמְעוּן אֵת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים הָאלֵהֶּ וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם אתָֹם” (פרק ז’, פסוק י”ב” “It shall be, in exchange for that which you will listen to these laws, and you will guard and keep them…” This week’s פָּרָשָׁה begins with a long list of blessings that Hashem promises us, “In […]
Spirituality Every Moment
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In פ‘ דברים, ח:יז, Deuteronomy, 8:17 it states, “And you will say in your heart my acumen and the strength of my hand earned me this wealth; and you will remember that I (Hashem) am the One who gave you the talent to earn your wealth…” In the דרשות […]
Parshas Devarim
Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenabum עד הנהר הגדול נהר פרת (פרק א פסוק ז) The Torah describes how Hashem sent the Jews to travel to the “great river, the Euphrates River.” Rashi explains that it is called a great river, even though it is not necessarily bigger than other rivers, because it is […]
Tisha B’Av: Regaining our Purpose
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In תהלים קל”ז , Psalms 137, Dovid Hamelech describes in painful detail the exile of the Jewish people from Eretz Yisrael, ציון , to the Euphrates River in Babylon. “By the rivers of Babylon- there we sat and also wept when we remembered ציון .” The Medrash שוחר […]
Parshas Matos-Masei
Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ואת בלעם בן בעור הרגו בחרב (פרק לא פסוק ח) Hashem commands the Jews to wage war against the מדינים as revenge for them intentionally causing the Jews to sin. The Jews killed all the males of מדין, and the פסוק adds that they killed בלעם by the […]
Impeccable Honesty
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In Chapter 32:1, the Torah introduces us to the discussion between Moshe Rabeinu, משה רבינו , and the tribes of Gad and Reuvain in the following manner: ומקנה רב היה לבני ראובן“ , And to the sons of Reuvain…” The question is, why does the Torah introduce the […]
Parshas Pinchas
Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum בני בנימין למשפחתם…אלה בני דן (פרק כו פסוק לח-מד) The Torah details a count of each tribe with the number of families [in the first generation] in a tribe and the total number of members. The tribe of Binyamin is counted as starting with seven major families, and in […]
From Disharmony to Harmony
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In recognition of what פנחס, Pinchas, did to literally save the Jewish people from Hashem’s wrath, he was gifted with שלום, harmony (במדבר י:י״ב). Immediately preceding the Torah states “את בקנאו קנאתי” (י:י”א). “When he zealously with a flaming rage” demonstrated with palpable passion his singular, selfless dedication to […]