Divrei Chaim

R' Yehoshua ben Kavsui said: My whole life I read the pasuk "V'hiza hatahor al ha'tamei" (19:19) as teaching that one ...

Why did Bnei Yisrael wait until after 40 years to sing shirah about the waters of the be'er? R' Leibele Eiger writes that the theme...

T he Rambam codifies l'halacha (Talmud Torah 3:13) the famous derasha on our parsha on " Adam ki yamus b'ohe l," that a pe...

My son pointed out to me in interesting line in the Birchas Shmuel at the end of Kiddushin which discusses the parameters of the mitzvah of ...

Commenting on Ya'akov's vision of the angels going up and down a ladder, the Midrash (M.R. is in P' Emor) explains that Ya'a...

My son did his siyum, my daughter had her graduation, so this week was my turn -- on Shabbos I made a siyum on Bavli. Some divrei Torah: Fi...

How do we explain the mistake of the Meraglim? How could such chashuv people, " kulam anashim ," have been so mistaken in their c...

Chazal interpret the word, "B'ha'alosecha," as a hint that the menorah should be lit so that " shalheves oleh m'e...

The very presence of the guest speaker at my son's yeshiva's annual gala siyum (held yesterday) brought warm memories to my mind. R...

The Midrash tells us that the letter aleph complained for hundreds of years that it was shortchanged when Hashem created the world, as it wa...

Chazal (Brachos 20) explain that Hashem shows favoritism towards Bnei Yisrael, " Yisa Hashem panav eilecha v'yasem lecha shalom ,...

Daughter #2 told me that in one of her classes today (Social Studies) the teacher asked if anyone knew what today was. One kid volunteered t...

R' Shlomo Hyman (Ch R' Shlomo, Kiddushin siman 3) writes that he once attended a pidyon haben where a fellow Rabbi suggested that si...

The Midrash writes that at mattan Torah Bnei Yisrael saw Malachim descending in precise order, in camps of degalim, and Bnei Yisrael desired...

For you members of the tribe who have been pulling the lever for Democrats because your grandparents did it, your parents did it, and now yo...

מעשה בתלמיד אחד של ר"ש בן יוחאי שיצא חוצה לארץ ובא עשיר והיו התלמידים רואין אותו ומקנאין בו והיו מבקשים הן לצאת לחוצה לארץ וידע ר"...

" Im teilchu imi b'keri," for which the punishments of the tochacha are given, refers to the abandonment of Torah and mitzvos...

אמר דוד רבש"ע בכל יום ויום הייתי מחשב ואומר למקום פלוני ולבית דירה פלונית אני הולך והיו רגלי מביאות אותי לבתי כנסיות ולבתי מדרשות הה...

Parshas Bechukosai does not begin, as so many other parshiyos do, with " Vayidaber Hashem el Moshe leimor ," or " Vayomer Has...