by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 26, 2012
BS”D Parshiot Acharei and Kedoshim (in Eretz Yisrael) 5772 Part A: In Bamidbar, chapter 14, the Torah relates the tragic episode of the ten miraglim (spies or scouts) who convinced the nation to defy the wishes of HaShem that they liberate Eretz Yisrael from its...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 19, 2012
BS”D Parashat Tazria and Yom Ha’Sho’ah 5772 Part A: After relating the laws incumbent upon a Jewish woman who has given birth, with regard to matters of tuma (x-slate) and the sacrifices she must bring to the Bet Hamikdash, the Torah turns its attention to the...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 5, 2012
BS”D Pesach 5722 Part A: This is being composed on a very auspicious day – the 10th of Nisan. On this date which occurred on Shabbat of the year that we left Egypt, every Jewish family was commanded to take either a young goat or a young lamb in...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Mar 29, 2012
BS”D Parshat Tzav and Shabbat HaGadol 5772 On the night of the 15th of Nisan, the seder night, each and every Jew is directed to envision himself as if he had experienced the exodus from Egyptian slavery. This is a near impossible requirement, because the deja...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Mar 23, 2012
BS”D Parashat Vayikra 5772 The qualitative distinction I made between tefilot (prayers) recited in Eretz Yisrael, as opposed to those recited in the galut (exile), continues to arouse visceral reactions. Of the last 10 replies that I received, 8 were negative...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Mar 15, 2012
BS”D Parshiot Vayakhel-Pekudai 5772 Shemot 35:1 And Moshe assembled the whole community of Israel and said to them, “These are the things the LORD has commanded you to do. The presence of 600,000 men, and a much larger number of women, and innumerous...