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Guarding the Palace
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In this week’s Parsha, we find a series of remarkable Mitzvos relating to Shemiras HaMikdash--guarding the Bais HaMikdash. To the unitiated, the concept of a frail human being watching or guarding the House of Hashem, the earthly Abode of the ....
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Posted 6/26/2009 12:00 AM |
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The Good of Truth
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THE SAGES OF MUSSAR ON THE PARSHA
When the people of Israel were encamped at Mount Sinai, Moshe appointed the Priesthood to Aaron. Even though Korach was jealous of Aaron’s status, he did not express his resentment at this time. He knew that Mos ....
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Posted 6/22/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 6/19/2009 12:00 AM |
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AROUND THE SHABBOS TABLE\SHELACH
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The Torah tells us that the spies delivered a negative report about Eretz Yisrael. They prefaced their statement with positive words, "We arrived at the Land and indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit." Then they said, "But the pe ....
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Posted 6/16/2009 12:00 AM |
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Parshas Behaloscha
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When the spies returned from Eretz Canaan, they described the land in less than glowing terms. "We arrived in the land. . . and indeed it flows with milk and honey. . . however, the natives are mighty, the cities are fortified. . . the land devours i ....
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Posted 6/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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The Beauty of our Reward
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AROUND THE SHABBOS TABLE
Our Sages tell us that as long as we are in this physical existence it’s impossible for a person to imagine the splendor of Gan Eden. Although, this is true, wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a c ....
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Posted 6/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 6/12/2009 12:00 AM |
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“Chayil”, valor or strength, in Torah learning
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As we approach the first Shabbos away from Shavuos, we note that the Parshas HaShavua is Parshas Naso. Among other mitzvos, the Parsha contains some enormous lessons on why and how to control the Yetzer Hora, and the kinds of brachos we should look ....
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Posted 6/5/2009 12:00 AM |
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When Peace Prevails
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The Midrash relates that one Friday night a certain woman attended a public lecture given by Rabbi Meir. By the time she returned home her candles were extinguished. "Where have you been?" her husband demanded. She replied that she had been to the cl ....
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Posted 6/5/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 6/5/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 5/23/2009 12:00 AM |
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Parshas Bamidbar
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It says in this weeks Parsha :
"The sons of Yosef, the sons of Efraim, their
offspring...counted 40,500."(Bamidbar 1:33)
The midrash
explains the exact wording of the verse. The repetition of the word "sons" comes
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Posted 5/23/2009 12:00 AM |
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Behar BeChukosai
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Rashi explains, "Im bechokosai teileichu" (If you walk in my chukim) as an exhortation to toil in the study
of Torah. Rav Wolbe (Shiurei Chumash) asks why the Torah refers to Torah study in the form of walking -
"teileichu." Shouldn’t the T ....
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Posted 5/18/2009 12:00 AM |
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Shabbos Sheva Brachos
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I’ve got 2 liters of wine with about 8 kilos of meat in a stew recipe that I
do, boiling out the alcohol on the kitchen stove. I found out that the cheap
wine I bought for cooking was Otzer Beit Din and therefore we hold that it ....
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Posted 5/16/2009 12:00 AM |
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Reb Shlomo Zalman- B'har / B'chukosai
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These parshios are so full of messages of love and closeness with Hashem and with our fellow Jews, it makes it difficult to choose what to tell you. B’EzH I am making the right choice. ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Working on our Words
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In this week’s Parsha we find the great Mitzvah of “VeLo Sonu Ish Es Amiso” (Vayikra 25:17)...each of you shall not aggrieve his fellow. Chazal (Bava Metzia 58B) teach that this Pasuk refers specifically to causing pain with words--Ono’as Dev ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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On Bitachon
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In the first of this week’s two Parshios, Behar, we find one of the paradigm mitzvos given to us by Hashem in order to affirm and strengthen our Bitachon—trust--the mitzvah of Shmitta. We are incredibly commanded to let the source of our Parn ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 5/8/2009 12:00 AM |
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Parshas Emor
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In this week’s Parsha, we find that a Pasuk relating to Tzedaka is suddenly placed among the Pesukim describing our Holidays, our Moadim, “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not remove completely the corners of your field; as you reap ....
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Posted 5/8/2009 12:00 AM |
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Emor - Anticipation and Opportunity
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“You shall guard (ushmartem) the Mitzvos and do them…” (Vayikra
22:31) What is meant by guarding the Mitzvos that isn’t included in doing
them?
The Chasam Sofer explains the word guard (ushmartem) to mean
anticipate. We find t ....
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Posted 5/8/2009 12:00 AM |
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Important Numbers
