Divrei Chaim

I happened to be looking at R' Shteineman's sefer Ayelet haShachar, so a few parsha ideas from there: A mussar idea: Rashi quotes th...

A few days ago one of my daughters asked me an interesting question. She had inadvertently forgotten to daven mincha, it was already after s...

Before we can figure out how to build an education system or assess whether an educational system meets the goals and ideals we aspire to as...

Would you play a game of Russian roulette with a gun that has four chambers, one of which is loaded? What if we agreed that if you survive, ...

We have not done any lomdus in the past week, so time to make up for it. My son is learning Bava Kamma in 10 th grade and asked the foll...

I’ve suddenly gotten busy, so less time to post. The Chizkuni quotes a Midrash which we don’t have: R’ Yehoshua was asked how we know Chava...

My wife was wondering why mothers/mothers-in-law are given the job of breaking a plate at the signing of tena'im. I don't know an a...

The first Rashi’s on chumash asks why the Torah begins with the story of creation instead of with the first mitzvah of kiddush hachodesh. R...

The Meshech Chochma explains that the argument of the snake was far more subtle than simply telling Chavah to ignore G-d’s command to abstai...

Why was Kayin's korban rejected? The Meshech Chohcma explains that in Sefer VaYikra the Torah prohibits bringing date honey as an offer...

Rashi opens his commentary with the question of why the Torah concerns itself with the story of creation – why not begin with the first mitz...

Dashening the pasuk " Hashem m'Seir ba ...." Chazal explain that Hashem went to Eisav and Yishmael and the other nati...

The Torah ends by referring to Moshe’s greatness in performing “signs and wonders”. Ramban asks what was unique about Moshe in this regard t...

Moshe Rabeinu was shown all of Eretz Yisrael before his death, right up until the border of Dan (34:1). Rashi explains that Moshe was shown...

Rav Kasher has a beautiful overview of the Rogatchover’s thought in the intro. to the Devarim volume of the Rogatchover al haTorah where he ...

On the first day of Sukkos you need to own a lulav to be yotzei ("lachem"). You can't borrow a lulav, but you can accept som...

Before R"H a fellow blogger bemoaned the lack of attention paid to the Ketzos these days, as bnei torah spend more time delving into...

Does a kinyan derabbanan create a status of ownership on a d'oraysa level? This question is debated by the classical Achronim and comes...

The Torah says that the lulav used for the mitzvah must be owned, "lachem," and therefore a stolen or borrowed lulav is disqualifi...

My wife observed a young man in shul after davening acting very gentlemanly by handing his lulav to his kallah -to-be in the ladies' ...