Divrei Chaim

Chazal (Men. 110) derive from the extra words " Zos toras ha'olah ..." that learning the parsha of korban olah is equivalent t...

I am fairly confident that in most areas of the Western world the practice of reclining on a couch while eating, haseiba, has long since fal...

As we've discussed before, Parshas haChodesh has actually very little to do with Rosh Chodesh. After the first two pesukim, the rest of...

The list of gedolim in the hospital grows longer each day. The Vizhnitzer is gone. Now R' Scheinberg is gone. What happened in France...

Ashes of the parah adumah are used to make someone who has come in contact with a dead body tahor.  Yet, these same ashes cause someone taho...

" Eileh pekudei hamishkan, mishkan ha'eidus. .." Rashi comments that the Mishkan is called " mishkan ha'eidus ",...

I want to recommend two books I read recently that are really worth your time. Both were available from my public library's system, so ...

Moshe Rabeinu was told on Har Sinai " Lech reid ki shiches amcha... ," that he must go back down to earth (probably in a spiritual...

The Torah avoids spelling out specifics about events that will occur in the future because were the Torah to say what will occur, then those...

When Mordechai told Esther to go to Achashveirosh to plead on behalf of the Jewish people, she replied that she had not been calle...

The 5T-Far Rockaway community had the privilege of hosting R Asher Weiss on P' Terumah - Shekalim.  On Motzei Shabbos he spoke at Shor Y...

Parshas Terumah is the story of the Mishkan as a building; Parshas TiTzaveh is the story of those who work in the Mishkan. The majority of ...

ד מצות עשה להחרים שבעה עממין, שנאמר "החרם תחרימם" (דברים כ,יז); וכל שבא לידו אחד מהן, ולא הרגו--הרי זה עובר בלא תעשה, שנאמר ...

I read a Midrash in last week's parsha (33:8) as a response to my ranting in the previous post.  The Midrash relates that when Hashem ha...

I posted this yesterday, but decided to try to tone it down a bit, though I don't know if I succeeded any better the second time around....

Chazal tell us that for 26 generations, from creation until Bnei Yisrael accepted the Torah, Hashem sustained the world solely because of hi...

Rashi comments on " Vayavo Moshe vayisaper la'am es kol divrei Hashem ..." (24:3) that Moshe told Bnei Yisrael the seven mitzv...

" Vayomer Yisro el Moshe, 'Ani chosencha Yisro ba eilech .'" (18:6) The Mechila quotes two views (echoed by Rashi/Ramban)...

The Daf Yomi is currently holding in the sugya of whether stam charamim go to the kohanim or to bedek habayis. After discussing the practic...

"Vayichad Yisro al kol hatova" -- Rashi explains that Yisro got goosebumps because he felt the pain of the Egyptians who had been...