Mishpatim: Under Fire
Under fire, there's no time for discussion. The nations of the world have difficulty understanding how it's possible to "do"...
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Yitro: Paying for Parents’ Sins – Fair or Not?
Hashem warns that children are required to pay for their parents' sins. The son asks, "Is it my fault that my father sins...
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Shmini: Eating in Holiness
How can this be? How does eating the additional hot dog or donut literally knock a person down the rungs of the spiritual ladder...
Re’eh: The Best Advice
It frequently seems as if many people are telling us what to do. When perplexed, all we have to do is remember...
Toldot: Better than Gold
…the people of that generation used to remark that the manure of Yitzchak's mules was better than Avimelech's gold and silver...
Nitzavim: Doing Business with Hashem
…teshuva qualifies as the "end of the season sale;" now, teshuva is a bargain. For a small investment one gets great rewards. But don't tarry...
Vayigash: Hitbodedut – Personal Prayer
Our holy forefathers found four distinct advantages of being shepherds: First, tending sheep is a relatively easy vocation...
Shoftim: The Gift of Self Evaluation
Judges and officers shall you appoint in all your gates – each one of us needs his own personal courtroom to judge himself every single day of our lives.
Vayechi: The Deciding Factors
It is a very beautiful custom for the father to bless his when he returns home from the synagogue on Shabbat. There's a slight difference..
Emor: The Royal Garments
The Code of Jewish Law says specifically (Shulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim 98:4) that prayer is a substitute for ritual sacrifices...
Ki Teitzei: The Double Standard
"When a person speaks about another person, it resembles Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment. Therefore, one must look carefully at himself if he has the...
Bo – The Importance of a Good Beginning
To this day, even after the destruction of our Holy Temple, we are required to sanctify not only our firstborn sons, but our firstborn cattle as well...
Bamidbar: The Power of Pidyon
At first, the holy service of the tabernacle and the sacrifices was intended for the firstborn of Israel...
Vezot HaBerachah: The Royal Scepter
Despite the fact that the Torah only mentions the nations of Esav and Yishmael explicitly, our Sages teach that Hashem offered...
Behaalotcha: Simplicity and Perseverance
Commenting on the above passage, Rashi writes that Aharon (Aharon) was upset when he saw the twelve days of festivities during the inauguration of the Holy..
Ki Tavo: Trusting in Hashem
Rebbe Nachman of Breslev teaches that we are all capable of attaining the blessing of an ample livelihood without breaking our backs...
Ki Tisa: The Power of Patience
We must ask ourselves, what gave the Levites the power to wait so patiently for Moshe? Why did the rest of the people...
Nasso: Harnessing the Power of Negative Emotions
"Your midsection distended" (Bamidbar 5:22). From the above passage, we learn Hashem's policy of measure-for-measure...