BAMIDBAR-SHAVUOT
2021-05-13 04:07:33 PM
"And the Levites… were not allowed to number themselves amongst them – בתוכם" )
"Any Torah scholar whose inner self is not like his outside shall not enter the Study Hall."
Concerning that said in the Masechet Avot, "One should raise many disciples" Rabeinu Ovadia of Bartenura explained, "Raise many disciples" – This is compared to...Read more...
BIHAR BICHUKOTAI
2021-05-06 06:01:38 PM
"And if you shall say – what shall we eat in the seventh year? See, we may not sow…." (25,20)
If miracles are made for him
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 says "A person mustn't benefit from miracles."
Accordingly, in his...Read more...
LAG BAOMER
2021-04-29 04:00:42 PM
"I can exempt the entire world from Judgment"
The power of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai
Regarding the power of RASHBY, it says in the Gemara "Rabbi Yermiya said in the name of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai: I can exempt the entire world from Judgment." In order to understand the enormous power of RASHBY let us look into what it says in the sefer Shmuot Tovot...Read more...
ACHREI MOT KEDOSHIM
2021-04-22 04:38:20 PM
"And Aharon shall bring near the hall the bull of the expiation offering… and effect atonement for himself and for his household." (16,6)
Before Whom will you have judgment and reckoning in the future?
According to what we learned in the Mishnah (Avot) "Akiva the son of Mihalelel says, look at three things and you will not come to sin – Know...Read more...
TAZRIA METZORA
2021-04-15 04:16:40 PM
"This is the teaching of the leper תורת המצורע on the day of his becoming pure…" (14,2)
His Torah
On the words "This is the teaching of the leper תורת המצורע on the day of his becoming pure" the Chovot Halivavot says that when a person speaks slander about his friend, his mitzvahs are taken away from him and the person about whom he...Read more...
To purify us from our impurity
2021-04-08 03:27:25 PM
"And you shall count unto you- לכם ….seven complete sabbaths shall it be." (Vayikra 23, 15)
To purify us from our impurity
We are now amidst the days of counting the Omer which, as we know, are days of preparation for receiving the Torah. We should therefore understand the holy obligation that rests upon us during these...Read more...
TSAV - PESSAH
2021-03-25 04:34:57 PM
Ideas from the Hagadah
Ha Lachma Ania
Rabbi Bunim of Pshischa said an interesting fact: The wording of the Hagaddah, especially the words of Baruch Hamakom Baruch Hu ברוך המקום ברוך הוא" show that Eliyahu Hanavi composed the Hagaddah, for we see many times that in Tana Dvei Eliyahu it says Baruch Hamakom Baruch...Read more...
Vayikra
2021-03-18 04:24:01 PM
"… if any man of you would bring an offering from you near unto G-d…"(1,2)
An offering from you
"Your offering should be similar to the offering of Adam Harishon. Just as even though Adam Harishon had everything at his disposal he did not bring from stolen or looted items, so you.. do not bring an offering from stolen or looted items."...Read more...
Vayakel Pikudei
2021-03-11 01:46:11 PM
"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 Mishkan and take it...Read more...
Ki Tisa
2021-03-04 04:46:54 PM
And he hewed two tablets of stone like unto the first…" (34,4)
Each person corresponds to one letter
The Migaleh Amukot wrote that the word Yisrael "ישראל" is initials for יש ששים רבוא אותיות לתורה – "There are six hundred thousand letters in the Torah". In...Read more...
PURIM-TETZAVEH
2021-02-25 06:00:27 AM
"The paupers look forward to the reading of the megilah" (Megilah 4)
The time of megilah reading is auspicious for good livelihood and blessings
In the sefer Ateret Yehoshua of the holy Rabbi of Jikov zy'o it is brought down that the megila reading is auspicious for a good livelihood.
The Rabbi explains...Read more...
Maghen Abraham - Thoughts From Mayer Sasson
2021-02-12 06:00:00 AM
"Now these are the social laws which you shall set …"
Sweetening the harsh Judgment
On this verse Onkelos translates "These are the judgments that you shall arrange before them". Our Rabbis see therein a clear allusion to the great work placed upon us to sweeten the harsh judgments (problems and suffering) that are made upon us. According to Onkelos Moshe is to arrange the harsh judgments to sweeten them....Read more...