We’ve got your back D’var Torah Parshat Bechukotai
Liluei Nishmat (for the raising of the soul in the next world) of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai author of the Zohar whose Yahrtzeit we commemorate this Sunday Lag’Baomer In his weekly column on the parsha...
View ArticleEveryone Counts: A D’var Torah on Parshat Bamidbar
This weeks parsha, which begins the fourth book of the Torah Bamidbar, starts with GOD commanding Moshe to take a census of the Jewish people. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Shlitta asks the question of why...
View Article“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”-Monty Python A D’var Torah on...
This weeks parsha makes note of Bnei Yisrael once again complaining in the wilderness and GOD becoming angry with them for doing so (Bamidbar 11:1). Rav Yissocher Frand, in the name of the Ramban,...
View ArticleAn Answer to the age old question that we never bothered thinking about: Why...
One of the times the Torah refers to the land of Eretz Yisrael as the land of milk and honey is in this weeks parsha. After the spies return from scouting out the land the first time they describe the...
View ArticleDon’t Be Chasing After Conflict
May this D’var Torah be shared to help bring about the return of Naftali ben Rachel Devorah Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim, and Eyal ben Iris Teshurah HASHEM should bring them home soon! #BringBackOurBoys...
View ArticleCovenant of Peace
Dedicated to all the soldiers fighting in the current war in Eretz Yisrael ,Operation Protective Edge, as well as all those in Eretz Yisrael both readers of this D’var Torah, my close friends, family...
View ArticleD’var Torah Parshat Matot: What About Them?
In this week’s parsha the Jewish people, camped on the bank of the Jordan River, are about to enter the land of Eretz Yisrael. Before they do so however, members of the tribe of Gad and Reuven request...
View ArticleReflections on Parshat Masei-” When were on this road that we call Life”-from...
This D’var Torah is written Liluei Nishmat (for the elevation of the souls) of all the brave soldiers who were murdered al pi Kiddush HASHEM in sanctification of GOD’s name this past week fighting for...
View ArticleParshat Devarim: We’ve still got that humility!
Dedicated to the elevation of the neshamot in the next world of all the soldiers that have died to allow us to have a Jewish homeland during this war and the many injured soldiers to be healed very...
View ArticleDon’t stop praying!
In the beginning of this week’s parsha the Hebrew word which Moshe uses to describe an encounter he had with GOD regarding him entering the land of Eretz Yisrael is “ Vaetchanan” (the name of this...
View ArticleChoose Wisely Reflections on Parshat Re’eh
Liluei Nishmat Harav Gershon Yankelewitz This weeks’ parsha begins with Moshe telling the Jewish people that they should see that today he is giving them a blessing and a curse. It is interesting...
View ArticleFriendship carved in stone Reflections on Parshat Shoftim
This week’s parsha contains a very interesting mitzvah. The prohibition of not setting up a monument to bring a sacrifice on (16:22). Specifically the Torah describes this monument as one that HASHEM...
View ArticleDon’t stop growing growing!
Lerefuah Shleima (for the speedy recovery) of Rav Moshe Tzvi Ben Freyda Simcha and Moshe Avraham Ben Mina Masha Chaya who are both fighting cancer right now! This week we read from the Torah two...
View ArticleReflections on Rosh Hashana: Focusing on Tomorrow While Remembering Yesterday
A key part of our service to GOD (our avodah) during the time period we currently find ourselves in of Rosh Hashana, this Shabbat Shuva, the rest of the ten days of repentance (the Aseret Yemei...
View ArticleGOD must really love us
The Zera Yitzchak (a sefer written by a chavruta/friend of a Rebbe of mine from Yeshivat Torat Shraga in Jerusalem,) makes notes of the fact how Yom Kippur is different than other fast days. On other...
View ArticleThe Importance of Gratitude Reflections on the Weekly Parsha
At the beginning of this week’s parsha Avraham, who we were introduced to at the end of last week’s parsha, is commanded by GOD to journey from his homeland of Haran to “ The land that I shall show...
View ArticleParshat Vayera: Kingship in the least likely of places
In this week’s parsha GOD destroys the wicked cities of Sdom and Amora. There is an interesting statement in the Talmud regarding these cities regarding how King Dovid (Dovid Hamelech) (as told to me...
View ArticleThe Self Sacrifice of a Mother
In this week’s parsha the Torah begins with the death of Sarah “ And Sarah died in Kiryat Arba etc”, (Bereisheit 23:2). Rashi brings down quoting Bereisheit Raba 58:5 that the reason Sarah died at this...
View ArticleLook for the Good!
In the beginning of the book of Bereisheit Rashi makes note of the fact that the reason why the Torah begins with Bereisheit and not with the first mitzvah in the Torah of Rosh Chodesh is so we can...
View ArticleD’var Torah Parshat Mikeitz
Upon his release from prison at the beginning of this week’s parsha, Yosef Hatzaddik is asked by Paro if he is the interpreter of dreams which his butler had told him about. When answering this...
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