Divrei Chaim

Stop reading this -- go prepare for Yom Tov, print it out and read it later.  I shouldn't be writing either, so this will be brief. 1....

I don't have time to really write about it, so I'll just pass on the mareh makom: The Avnei Nezer has an interesting chiddush that w...

The Yerushalmi (Ta'anis 3:11) relates that there was once a drought and no rain fell.  What did R' Yochanan ben Zakai do?  He told h...

Dirshu Hashem b’himatz’o, kira’u’hu b’hiyoso karov – Chazal darshen this pasuk as referring to the aseres y’mei teshuvah , when Hashem is c...

Rashi comments on the pasuk, "Ki hamitzvah ha'zos... lo ba'shamayim hi," (30:12) that were the Torah indeed found in shama...

The gemara (B.K. 94b) writes that if a parent dies and the heirs discover easily identifiable stolen goods in the parent's estate, they ...

If there are any Jews out there left who plan to vote Democrat, please, just jump off a bridge or something.  If you are suicidal and want t...

The gemara (Kesubos 5) darshens the pasuk in Ki Keitzi, " V'yated t'hiye lecha al azeinecha ," as a hint that one should u...

According to one interpretation the " yarei v'rach ha'leivav " mentioned in Parshas Shoftim who may return from the front ...

Rambam (Hil Avodah Zarah ch 4): והיאך דין עיר הנידחת, בזמן שתהא ראויה ליעשות עיר הנידחת--בית דין הגדול שולחין ודורשין וחוקרין, עד שיידעו ברא...

The gemara in Yoma (22b) tells us that when Shaul received the command to wage war and destroy Amalek, he made a kal v'chomer: If for th...

1) In the daf hayomi for this past shabbos (Brachos 17) the gemara writes that women are promised more reward than men in olam ha'bah fo...

Our parsha contains the halacha of bringing ma'aser sheni to Yerushalayim, and what to do when you can't transport it there: Aser te...

Sometimes it takes a few hours for the light bulb in my brain to go on. Yesterday ( link ) I posted the vort of the Oheiv Yisrael on Rikvah...

The word " osam " in " V'limadtem osam es bneichem l'daber bam " is written missing the middle " vav ,...

Chazal derive from the pasuk in parshas Eikev, " Mah Hashem... shoel m'imach ki im l'yirah ," that everything is in the ha...

The minhag among some chassidim, including some very important Rebbes, is to daven very late, even past the zman tefilah. The Kozhiglover (E...

The Rambam paskens that there is a mitzvah d'orasya to daven once a day every day. Ramban disagrees and holds that md'oraysa one is ...

The Rambam famously asks (Mamrin ch 2) how Chazal could enact new laws when the Torah in P' VaEschanan prohibits adding to or detractin...

1. Ramban comments on the pasuk, " V'ahavta l're'acha kamocha ," that the Torah uses the term " l' re'ach...