Divrei Chaim

“ V’ lo sham’u el Moshe m’kotzer ruach u’mei’avodah kashah .” The plain meaning of the pasuk is that the people were too burdened with work...

The Netzi”v makes a simple point about the 4 leshonos of geulah, but sometimes it’s worth reiterating the basics. The four expressions repr...

If you have to be at work early (I know the feeling), these days sunrise is so late that there is a real possibility that you may be waking ...

Hashem promised Bnei Yisrael that they would leave Egypt with " klei kesef k'lei zahav u'semalos . " The Ba'al haTuri...

The Midrash tells us that Pharoah had three advisers, Bilam, Yisro, and Iyov, from whom he sought counsel regarding his “Jewish problem.” B...

1) Vayakam melech chadash... asher lo yada es Yosef . Rashi explains that Pharoah pretended that he never heard of Yosef; the memory of the ...

Another Lubliner Rav vort (the last one was pretty good, wasn ’t it? I'm getting addicted): Hashem told Moshe not to be concerned le...

At work I have been moved to a different building, a different team, and am doing something different, which takes some getting used to, so ...

The Rambam writes that a nochri who strikes a yisrael is chayav misa, but is not killed -- i.e. it is a chiyuv misa b'ydei shamayim (Mel...

We learn much about the history of Ya’akov Avinu’s life only indirectly, e.g. knowing Yishmael’s age at death, we can calculate that Ya’ak...

The Avudraham's opinion that one would be required to fast on 10 Teves even if it fell on Shabbos is well known (see here and here )....

I wrote earlier about the focus of Brisk on the “4 amos of halacha .” It would be wrong to assume that this focus, for all its narrown...