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PERASHA PEKUDEI

03/15/2024 11:21:14 AM

Mar15

"These are the schedules of the Tabernacle המשכן the Tabernacle of the Testimony העדות משכן which were listed according to the command of Moshe…" (38, 21)

Why hasn't He returned it?

Rashi asks – Why does it say משכן twice?  And he answers – This is an allusion to the Temple that was pawned נתמשכן by the two...Read more...

VAYAKEL PIKUDEI - ROSH HAHODESH

03/08/2024 10:59:20 AM

Mar8

"And Moshe erected the Tabernacle…" (40,18)

I fell and I stood up

Our Sages ob'm say on the verse in the Torah (Bamidbar) "And it came to pass on the day that Moshe finished setting up the Tabernacle…" that it does not say "on the day Moshe set up the Tabernacle" to teach us that for all the seven days of the Miluim Moshe would erect the...Read more...

PERASHA KI TISA

02/23/2024 11:16:26 AM

Feb23

"This shall they give, every one that passes over to the counted ones, half a shekel in the weights of the Sanctuary…."

A coin of 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 TERUMA

02/16/2024 11:08:08 AM

Feb16

''....spices for anointing oil and for the incense of aromatic spices.'' (5, 6)

Atonement for sins

"Something hidden (the Ketoret- Incense) shall come and atone for a hidden deed  (= slander)."

Concerning the service of the Cohen Gadol on Yom Kippur we learn in the gemmara (Yuma) "And it shall atone for...Read more...

PERASHA MISHPATIM

02/09/2024 10:31:25 AM

Feb9

And these are the ordinances… you shall place before them"  (21,1)

In good faith

 Rashi says on the spot that when we read ...''And these'' it means that the Torah wants us to know that these ordinances are in addition to the utterances that were given in the monumental event of the receiving of the Torah; this is to say that the...Read more...

PERASHA YITRO

02/02/2024 11:24:51 AM

Feb2

"And all the people were seeing the sounds... and the nation saw and they trembled and stood afar off."

"The people were seeing" or "he saw"

On this verse the Sar Shalom of Belz asks: Why does the verse begin in the plural "were seeing" and end in the singular "he saw"?

In order to explain this question. the...Read more...

PERASHA BESHALCH

01/26/2024 12:05:12 PM

Jan26

Revelation of the Crown

"G-d will fight… and you – hold your peace." (14,14)

On the verse in our Parsha "G-d said to Moshe wherefore do you cry…speak unto the Children of Israel that they go forward" the holy Zohar explains that at the splitting of the Red Sea the conduct of Crown (כתר) (Keter) of G-d the King of the Universe was...Read more...

PERASHA BO

01/19/2024 12:03:11 PM

Jan19

``And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt when G-d your G-d brought you out from there… therefore G-d your G-d commanded you to fulfill the Shabbat day." (Dvarim 5, 15)

The sale of Yosef

It is brought in the holy books that the reason that we make the blessing on two breads on Shabbat is to remedy the sin of selling Yosef. The source thereof is the new...Read more...

PERASHA VA'EIRA

01/12/2024 12:44:02 PM

Jan12

"And G-d (Elokim) spoke to Moshe and said... I am G-d." (6,2)

 The Trait of Judgment

 On the words written at the beginning of the Parsha "And G-d (Elokim) spoke to Moshe and said... I am G-d" the Kisei Rachamim explains that here G-d spoke to Moshe with the Trait of Judgment. For every place that says Elokim aludes to the Trait of Judgment, and certainly when it...Read more...

PERASHA SHEMOT

01/05/2024 12:19:21 PM

Jan5

"I shall be that which I Will be." "אהיה אשר אהיה" (3,14)

To see the light amidst the dark

The fact that G-d's Name comes from the words "אהיה אשר אהיה" comes to allude to us that He acts from Above with people as a person acts in This World Below. (Rabbi P. Friedman)

We have learned from...Read more...

PERASHA VAYECHI

12/29/2023 12:33:05 PM

Dec29

"Through Asher, his food is rich שמנה לחמו ...he delivers royal dainties." (49,20)

The assistance of Asher son of Yakov

In the sefer Medrash Talpiot a wonderful idea is brought in the name of the Ari'zl that Asher the son of Yakov studied Torah and Mishnah more than his brothers and therefore, in the merit of his learning, he merited...Read more...

PERASHA VAYGASH

12/22/2023 10:28:21 AM

Dec22

The right order

"Then Yehuda came near unto him and said, O my Lord..." (44, 18)

He came near to pray (Breshit Rabba)

The Grand Rabbi, Rabbi Yechiel of Galina, the son-in-law of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz said:

This verse alludes to that which is said in the Gemara (Brachot): "A person should first arrange his praises to G-d and thereafter pray".

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PERASHA MIKETZ

12/15/2023 11:16:17 AM

Dec15

"...and he took Shimon from them and had him bound before their eyes."(42,24)

Jewish power

A wonderful explanation on what happened in Egypt is found in the Midrash: Yosef sent a message to Pharoh and said, "Send me seventy mighty people for I found people and I want to put them in jail". When they came he told them: "Take these chains and put...Read more...

PERASHA VAYESHEV

12/07/2023 07:03:03 PM

Dec7

"And Yisrael loved Yosef more than all his children…. and he made him an embroidered cloak - ".כתנת פסים (37, 3)

Pasim

On the words "and he made him a כתנת פסים  our Rabbis ob'm say – named for the troubles of Yosef who was sold to Potifar, merchants, Ishmaelites,...Read more...

PERASHA VAYISHLACH

12/01/2023 11:49:05 AM

Dec1

Why Seven?

The Kabbalistic Approach.

"And he himself passed before them and bowed himself… seven times until he came near to his brother." (33,3)

On that which is written in the parsha (before Yakov met with Esav) "And he himself passed before them and bowed himself… seven times until he came near to his brother" our Rabbis ob'm wonder. If a person wants to honor or appease someone, he bows before him once. Why...Read more...

PERASHA VAYETZE

11/24/2023 12:19:42 PM

Nov24

in order to remember

"…and she said this time I thank G-d therefore she called his name Judah…"(30,35)

This is surprising. Didn't Leah thank G-d for the three Tribes she merited to have until now?

The MAHRAM Shick explains; Certainly, Leah thanked G-d by her previous births but now that she merited to take more than her portion and to give birth to a fourth son to Yakov she wondered: Is...Read more...

PERASHA CHAYEI SARA

11/10/2023 10:46:10 AM

Nov10

Our Sages ob'm tell us that it is well known that the Name Perasha Chayei Sara

"… Avraham had become old and advanced in days and Hashem blessed Avraham in everything."(24, 1)

Hashem and His Court

of G-d Elokim is the Name of the Trait of Justice while the Name Hashem is Name of total Kindness and Mercy. But...Read more...

PERASHA VAYERA

11/03/2023 02:35:11 PM

Nov3

"And G-d (Elokim) spoke to Moshe and said... I am G-d." (6,2)

The Trait of Judgment

On the words written at the beginning of the Perasha  "And G-d (Elokim) spoke to Moshe and said... I am G-d" the Kisei Rachamim explains that here G-d spoke to Moshe with the Trait of Judgment. For every place that says Elokim alludes to the Trait of Judgment, and certainly when it says...Read more...

PERASHA LECH LECHA

10/27/2023 12:25:30 PM

Oct27

"And G-d said to Avraham isolate yourself from your country and from your birthplace…and I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you and I will make your name great…(12, 1-2)

Special qualities:

On the words in our Parsha Rashi explains that traveling on the road causes a reduction in three things – having children, money and a reputation- therefore he...Read more...

NOACH

10/20/2023 12:32:01 PM

Oct20

"… I have been caused to alter my decision that I made them…Noach found grace in the eyes of G-d." (6, 7-8)

Found grace

It says in the gemara "Rabbi Yishmael taught, upon Noach a decree was made (to die in the Deluge) but he found grace in the eyes of G-d."

This seems wondrous: If Noach did not deserve to be...Read more...

PERASHA BRESHIT

10/13/2023 02:04:18 PM

Oct13

“… you are cursed…and dust shall you eat all the days of your life.” (3, 14)

Lifting your eyes to Heaven

Our Sages say that by his being cursed to eat only dust, the serpent’s food is always available to him.” If he goes up to the roof – his food remains with him”. And our Sages say “If one sees a snake in a dream –(this is a...Read more...

SUKKOT

10/06/2023 01:37:51 PM

Oct6

"…because of the hand that was sent out to Your temple" (Machzor, Succot)

Whose hand?

Concerning the words in the Succot prayers "Because of our sins we were exiled from our land… because of the hand that was sent out to Your temple" the Jewish Sages ask, what does the verse mean by "…because of the hand that was sent out to Your temple" Which hand? Seemingly it should have been written "Because of our sins we were...Read more...

SUCCOT

09/29/2023 11:32:46 AM

Sep29

How are the Children of Israel different from others?

"I have an easy mitzvah and it's called Succah" (Gemara Avoda Zara 3)

Our Sages say in the gemara that in the Future to come the Gentiles of the world will, as if, argue with Gd and say: Why are the Children of Israel different that only they deserve reward in the World to Come?

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PERASHA HAAZINU

09/22/2023 12:05:14 PM

Sep22

‘’The Succah and the Lulav’’

"In the succah shall you sit seven days…"

The numerology of the covering of the succah, the schach "סכך" is 100, referring to 100 blessings. This alludes to the fact that saying 100 blessings daily covers and protects a person, as it says in the Tur – David Hamelech set up the recitation of one hundred...Read more...

EREV ROSH HASHANA PERASHA NITZAVIM

09/14/2023 07:20:16 PM

Sep14

Let us search our ways

"Let us search our ways and explore and return to You for Your right Hand is outstretched to accept the repenters."(From the Selichot prayers)

Every day in the selichot prayers we say "Let us search our ways…. For Your right Hand is outstretched to accept the repenters". We must understand the depth of the matter in the...Read more...

PERASHA NITZAVIM-VAYELECH

09/08/2023 02:13:33 PM

Sep8

"Go please and argue, G-d will say, if your sins will be scarlet, they shall turn white like snow. If they will be red… they will be like wool. (Yeshaya 1, 18)

Turn white like snow.

On this verse in Yeshaya the holy Mekubal Rabbi M.A. of Pano ob'm said: This verse is surprising. When a person has a claim against his friend, it is clear that he will invite him to court to...Read more...

PERASHA KI TAVO

09/01/2023 02:18:40 PM

Sep1

"And you shall take from the first of all the fruit of the soil..." (26,2)

Gratitude

On the verse "And you shall take from the first of all the fruit of the soil" Rashi says "From the first" - A person goes down to his field and sees a fig that has ripened, he ties a band around it as a sign and says, - This is bikurim."

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PERASHA KI TETZE

08/25/2023 01:01:36 PM

Aug25

Going out to war

"When you go out to war against your enemies and G-d your G-d will give him into your hand…" (21, 10)

The verse that opens our Parsha "When you go out to war" is said in the singular in order to each us that we can defeat our enemies only through unity, as our Sages ob'm taught, "The generation of Achav – they all were idol worshippers but because there...Read more...

PERASHA "SHOFTIM"

08/18/2023 12:45:51 PM

Aug18

''Judges and policeman you shall appoint in all your gates.....'' (16,18)

Judges and policemen

The commentators such as the ''Shlah Hakadosh'', Rabbi Haim Vital and others note that the Mitzvah of appointing judges is presented to the singular person and is directed to ''You" as an individual and they therefore expand the...Read more...

PERASHA RE"EH

08/11/2023 10:26:43 AM

Aug11

Initials of Elul- אלול - the month of repentance

"I alone am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine…" "אני לדודי ודודי לי..."(Shir Hashirim 6,3)

We know well what the Sages said that the month of Elul is alluded to in the verse of "אני לדודי ודודי לי..." – these have the initials of - אלול - the month of...Read more...

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