Ki Tetze 5771

by | Sep 8, 2011

BS”D Parashat Ki Tetze 5771 Devarim 22:1-2 If you see your brother’s (fellow Jew’s) ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but return it to its owner. If your brother (the owner) is not close to you or if you do not know who owns it, take it into your home to be...

Shoftim 5771

by | Sep 1, 2011

BS”D Parashat Shoftim 5771 Part A: Devarim 20:16-18 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites as the LORD your God has commanded you So that they will not instruct you to follow all the detestable things they...

Re’eh 5771

by | Aug 26, 2011

BS”D Parashat Re’eh 5771 TWO VIEWS FROM BEYOND THE HORIZON Part A: In this week’s parasha, the age old ethical-philosophic problem of defining right and wrong and what is good and what is bad, is unequivocally and unambiguously resolved: See (acknowledge), I am...

Aikev 5771

by | Aug 19, 2011

BS”D Parashat Aikev 5771 Devarim 8:7-10 For the LORD your God brings you to a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of...

Ve’etchanan 5771

by | Aug 12, 2011

BS”D Parashat Ve’etchanan 5771 The continuous flow of world history with its myriad episodes, can be likened to a motion picture consisting of innumerous individual frames. But, unlike a motion picture where thousands of frames pass through the viewer’s eyes on...

Tisha B’Av 5771

by | Aug 9, 2011

Don’t lie to HaShem There are three stages in the teshuva (repentant) process: to admit the sin before HaShem to feel remorse at having sinned to vow never to repeat the sin One who desecrated the Shabbat by having a great time on the golf course followed by a...