Masai 5771

BS”D Parashat Masai 5771 Consider the words: Dafka, Alush, Ritma, Barsa, Mitka, Avrona – what do they mean to you? Taken out of context, they have no meaning, they are obscure and irrelevant; however, within the context of our parsha they gain great...

Pinchas-Matot 5771

BS”D Pinchas and Matot 5771 and the 17th of Tamuz The Jewish world is still reeling from the events in Boro Park. A nine year old boy went missing and several days later was later found hideously murdered. And in defiance of the logical, expected outcome of the...

Pinchas 5771

BS”D Parashat Pinchas 5771 Part A: This parsha always draws me close to tears. How I feel for the greatest of men – Moshe Rabbeinu – who was forced to succumb to the harsh, decisive judgement of HaShem that he would be excluded from entering the Holy...

Balak 5771

BS”D Parashat Balak 5771 Diminutive in size but giant in spirit, our beloved Medinat Yisrael, has made the world stand still (figuratively) more than once since its re-establishment 63 years ago. The world looked in disbelief, when in 1948 a mere handful of...

Chukat 5771

BS”D Parashat Chukat 5771 The parasha relates a grievous incident in the thirty-ninth year of our sojourn in the desert, just when the nation was about to enter the Promised Land. The people demanded water – a legitimate request, but it was performed in a...

Korach 5771

BS”D Parashat Korach 5771 The destiny of many things is determined at the precise moment of their inception; like skin complexion, and the color of one’s hair and eyes, or a seed planted in the earth that will produce only according to the characteristics...
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