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Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ולא תשבית מלח ברית אלקיך מעל מנחתך (פרק ב פסוק יג) We are commanded to bring salt together with every קרבן מנחה (meal offering). Rashi explains that salt is referred to as “salt of Hashem’s covenant” because when Hashem separated the upper and lower

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In this week’s פרשה, which introduces us to the mitzvah of קרבנות, sacrifices; the בעל הטורים (1269-1340) points to many lessons of מידות, sensitivity, that the Torah is teaching us.ספר ויקרא, the book of Leviticus, begins with the word ויקרא, but in contradistinction to

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה (פרק לה פסוק ב) As introduction to the building of the Mishkan, the Torah reminds us of our obligation to rest on Shabbos from anycreative activity- the very ones that are done to build the Mishkan. The pasuk tells us,

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier The נביא ירמיה, prophet Jeremiah, (17:19-26) admonishes כלל ישראל, the Jewish people, especially the inhabitants of Jerusalem including the monarchs, to observe the Shabbos. In a lengthy castigation, he repeatedly implores them to observe the prohibition of carrying objects form a public domain into

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier Rav Shlomo Breuer זצ”ל, the son-in-law of Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch and disciple of the Ktav Sofer, offers a beautiful, profound and illuminating discourse on the profound lesson of the mitzvah of the פרה אדומה, the Red heifer. The mitzvah is perplexing in the

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ויעשהו עגל מסכה ויאמרו אלה אלקיך ישראל (פרק לב פסוק ד) Just a short while after בני ישראל witnessed the wondrous miracles of יציאת מצרים (leaving Egypt), קריעת ים סוף (the splitting of the sea), and מתן תורה (the giving of the Torah), they

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum מחוץ לפרוכת אשר על העדת יערך אותו (פרק כז פסוק כא) The Torah commands בני ישראל to donate olive oil for use in the משכן and explains that its purpose will be for the מנורה which is to be placed outside the curtain that

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier Dovid Hamelech in Psalms Ch. 22:1 states, “למנצח על אילת השחר”. The Talmud in מס‘ יומא כט , Tractate Yoma 29a, quotes רב אסי , Rav Assi who explains that this refers to the period of אסתר המלכה , Queen Esther. Why is the

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum דבר אל בני ישראל ויקחו לי תרומה (פרק כה פסוק ב) Hashem commands Moshe to instruct the Jewish nation to donate money and materials for the purpose of building His משכן. The Beis Halevi explains that this mitzvah comes specifically after פרשת משפטים because

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier HaRav Yerucham Levovitz זצ”ל taught that in this week’s portion we are inculcated with one of the major lessons of spiritual life! The Torah delineates the exact measurements of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), the מנורה (candelabrum), the שולחן (table for the showbreads), the ארון (ark)…