Weekly Hashkafa
Parshas Vayeishev – Living Like a Rock
And Yaakov lived in the lands in which his father sojourned, the land of Canaan. Bereishis 37: 1 Rashi tells us that after the Torah described the life of Aysav in an abbreviated manner, it then told over the events in the life...
Read more of this articleParshas Noach – Bitachon and Effort- Finding the Balance
This is how you should make the ark: three hundred amahs long, fifty amahs wide and thirty amahs tall.” Bereishis 6: 15 HASHEM appeared to Noach and told him that the world had turned to wicked ways, and it was to be destroyed...
Read more of this articleWeekly Parsha – Ki Savoh
The Mitzvah to be Happy “Because you did not serve HASHEM, your G-d, amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant.” — Devarim 28:47 The destiny of the Jews At the end of a long prophecy of what...
Read more of this articleFinding and Keeping Your Soul Mate – Interview with noted author, Riva Pomerantz
Just when you thought everything on shidduchim that needed to be said was already out there, here comes a book that totally turns the shidduch world on its head. And I do not say that lightly. Even me, happily married for over...
Read more of this articleParshas Re’eh – Life: The School of Growth
“See I have placed in front of you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing: if you will listen to all of the mitzvahs of HASHEM your G-d as I have commanded you today…” — Devarim 11:21 There are two paths in front...
Read more of this articleTisha B’Av Schedule
This Thursday night I will be speaking at Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in monsey, at 9:30 PM. This is for men only Topic: What Tisha B’Av means to us — What it should mean to us Location: Congretation Netzach Isreal. 1...
Read more of this articleParashas Matos – Two Elements to a Sin
“And if her father will revoke [the neder] the day that he hears all of the vows and prohibitions that she placed on herself, they [the vows] will not stand, and HASHEM will forgive her because her father annulled them.” —...
Read more of this articleShmuz Korach – Questions Have Answers – Answers Don’t Have Answers
“Korach the son Yizhar, son of Kahas, son of Levi, separated himself with Dathan and Aviram, the sons of Eliav, and On of Peleth, the offspring of Reuvain.” — Bamidbar 16:1 Korach’s rebellion The parshah opens up with...
Read more of this articleParshas Emor – The Torah’s system of Self Perfection
“A cow or a sheep, it and its child, do not slaughter on one day.” Vayikrah 22:28 In one of the many mitzvahs that teaches us how to deal with animals, the Torah commands us not to kill a mother and its offspring on one day. The...
Read more of this articleParsha Achrei Mos
Systems of Human Perfection “And a man from the house of Israel, and from the converts who live with you, who shall consume any blood, I shall place My face against the soul of the one who consumed blood, and I shall cut it...
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