PERASHA EKEV
08/15/2025 01:10:58 PM
"And now Israel what does G-d your G-d demand from you? Nothing but to fear G-d your G-d to walk in all his ways…." (10, 12)
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VAETCHANAN
08/08/2025 10:02:01 AM
''I implored Hashem at that time…. My Lord, Hashem/Elokim, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for what power is there… that can perform according to Your deeds and to Your mighty acts?'' (3, 23-24)
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PERASHA DEVARIM
08/01/2025 10:38:30 AM
"… Moshe spoke to the Children of Israel…. After he had smitten Sichon…." (1, 3-4)
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PERASHA PINCHAS
07/18/2025 03:05:14 PM
"Pinchas son of Elazar…has turned My wrath away…therefore proclaim it –see I give him My covenant…" (25,11-12)
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PERASHA BALAK
07/11/2025 11:47:25 AM
"And they shall take for the unfit person of the ashes of burnt expiation from sin offering… (19,17)
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PERASHA CHUKAT
07/04/2025 12:28:44 PM
"… fear him not for I have delivered him into your hand… and you shall do unto him as you did unto Sichon King of the Amorites…." (21, 34)
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PERASHA KORACH
06/27/2025 11:14:02 AM
"And they gathered themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon and said to them, you arrogate too much to yourselves..." (16,3)
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PERASHA BEHAALOTECHA
06/13/2025 10:14:35 AM
"According to G-d's orders did they encamp and according to G-d's orders did they journey forth…" (9, 23)
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PERASHA NASO
06/06/2025 12:46:03 PM
"Speak to Aharon and to his sons saying - thus shall you bless the Children of Israel…" (6, 23)
The...Read more...
PERASHA BAMIDBAR
05/30/2025 11:10:16 AM
"Let the Tribe of Levi come near…" (3,6)
To flourish
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PERASHA BEHAR
05/23/2025 11:39:01 AM
"And if you shall say – what shall we eat in the seventh year? See, we may not sow…." (25,20)
Miraculous or natural?
Our Sages say that when a Jew benefits from miracles, merits of his are reduced, as it says in the Gemara, "And if a miracle is made for him – merits of his are reduced."
Therefore, Rashi...Read more...
PERASHA EMOR
05/16/2025 11:51:25 AM
"…. but let Me be hallowed in the midst of the Children of Israel…." (22,32)
Wicked Jews
On the words "let Me be hallowed in the midst of the Children of Israel" the Gemara says – Rav Ada the son of Ahava said – How do we know that an individual does not say Kedusha? Because it says "let Me be hallowed in the midst of the Children of...Read more...
PERASHA ACHRE MOT
05/09/2025 09:26:05 AM
"And G-d spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aharon; it was in their coming near before G-d…"
Kiss of death
In one verse the Torah mentions "after the death of the two sons of Aharon" and immediately thereafter goes into the details of Laws pertaining to the Service of the Cohen Gadol on Yom Kippur. The holy Or Hachaim asks: The Torah described...Read more...
PERASHA TAZRIA
05/02/2025 11:12:40 AM
"… when a woman has matured a human germ and born a manchild…"
To merit a child
"He who keeps his eyes down will be saved" (Iyov) – "When a person puts his eyes down to the ground and humbles himself G-d saves him and helps him."
The (true) story is told that several years ago a person came to Rabbi Meir...Read more...
PERASHA SHEMINI
04/25/2025 11:23:09 AM
"… Do this thing which G-d has commanded and the Glory of G-d will show itself unto you." (9,6)
In which direction?
Rabbi Moshe Elyakim of Kozhnitz related: Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli once came to a crossroads and did not know in which direction to turn. He looked to see in which direction the Holy Name of G-d was hovering in front of his eyes and...Read more...
PESSACH
04/18/2025 10:02:23 AM
''…a man when he brings from among you an offering to Hashem from the animals from the cattle and from the flock shall you bring your offering.'' (1,2)
Offerings
We know that the offerings have a superior spiritual level and degree in worshiping Hashem as it is the only task that is defined as a "satisfying aroma" for Hashem whereby Hashem is...Read more...
PERASHA TZAV
04/11/2025 11:41:12 AM
"Command Aharon and his sons saying…" (6,2)
"Command only means to spur on now and for generations." (Rashi)
Since this mitzvah is intended for generations, as it says, it needs spurring on lest it become "old". It should rather be always done with enthusiasm and regeneration.
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PERASHA VAYIKRA
04/04/2025 10:46:47 AM
Nothing better
"… if any man of you would bring an offering near unto G-d from animals…" (1, 2)
On the verse in Tehilim (36) "A man and an animal G-d will save" our Rabbis say that as long as the sinner is still alive, he can remedy the situation by repenting. But if, G-d forbid, he dies without repentance, his only remedy is for him to return...Read more...
PERASHA PEKUDEI
03/28/2025 11:40:46 AM
An allusion to the wicked
"…the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver, also the overlaying of their heads was of silver, and they, all the pillars of the courtyard, were entwined with silver." (38,17)
On the verse "the hooks (ווי) of the pillars (those who stand) and their fillets (their desires) were of silver, also the...Read more...
PERASHA VAYAKHEL
03/21/2025 12:48:21 PM
"And the cheubim were with their wings spread upwards… with their faces one to another…" (37, 9)
Unity and modesty
Concerning the verse "And the cheubim were with their wings spread upwards… with their faces one to another…" our Rabbis ob'm ask (Baba Batra) – Why does it say here that the cherubim were with their faces one to another? In...Read more...
PERASHA KI TISA
03/14/2025 12:19:33 PM
"This shall they give, every one that passes over to the counted ones, half a shekel in the weights of the Sanctuary…." (30,13)
Why fire?
Rashi writes here per the Midrash: "Hashem showed Moshe a likeness of a coin of fire whose weight was half a shekel and said to him: Thus, shall they give. Sages in Israel ask – Why did G-d show Moshe a coin...Read more...
PERASHA TITZAVEH
03/07/2025 11:45:30 AM
"…if You wouldst, forgive their sin, but if not, blot me out, I pray, from Your book which You have written." (32,32)
His words did not go unanswered
We know that in the Parsha of Titzaveh the name of Moshe Rabeinu, the loyal Shepherd, does not appear at all. If we investigate, we find that when the Children of Israel sinned in the Sin of the Golden Calf the Creator wanted, G-d fobid, to anhilate the Children of Israel, as...Read more...
PERASHA TERUMAH
02/28/2025 11:12:59 AM
"And the middle board הבריח התיכון inside the boards…" (26,28)
Yakov's staff
On the verse "And the middle board הבריח התיכון inside the boards…" the holy Tana Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai writes in the Zohar that this refers to Yakov who was wholesome in his holiness.
This can be...Read more...
PERASHA MISHPATIM
02/21/2025 11:09:59 AM
"The rich shall give no more and the poor no less than half a shekel…." (30, 15)
Half and not whole
We must know that the fact that Moshe was commanded to collect from the Children of Israel half a shekel and not a whole shekel entails great intention, for thereby the Torah comes to tell every person in Israel that a person never reaches...Read more...
PERASHA YITRO
02/14/2025 10:05:04 AM
Understanding Torah
"And they journeyed from Refidim and came to the desert of Sinai…" (19,2)
"Comparing their journey from Refidim to their coming to the desert of Sinai – Just as their coming to the desert of Sinai was amidst repentance, so their journey from Refidim was amidst repentance." (Rashi)
From the fact that the Children of...Read more...
PERASHA BESHALACH
02/07/2025 12:47:58 PM
The source of our sustenance
"And Moshe said, this is that which G-d commands – an Omer full of it is to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from… Egypt." (16, 32)
The Divrei Yisrael says that even after the Manna has ceased coming down from Heaven, G-d...Read more...
PERASHA BO
01/31/2025 10:03:39 AM
How should we act towards the wicked?
"Then they shall eat the meat in that night… with unleavened bread and bitter herbs are they to eat it." (12, 8)
It happened once that a Jew came to the Grand Rabbi, the Sar Shalom of Belz zy'o with a complaint: "For many years I leased a tavern from the poritz and recently another Jew came and convinced the...Read more...
PERASHA VA'ERA
01/24/2025 09:33:33 AM
Why did the Torah list the ancestry of Moshe and Aharon only in the Parsha of Va'era and not in the Parsha of Shmot when they were first mentioned?
"And G-d spoke to Moshe and Aharon and commanded them concerning the Children of Israel and concerning Pharoah... to bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt. These are the heads of their fathers' houses the sons of Reuven the firstborn of Israel Chanoch and Paullu Chezron and Carmi...."(...Read more...