Divrei Chaim

On Simchas Torah there were a few stations set up in the beis medrash I was davening in to lein Zos haBracha over and over so everyone cou...

The gemara (A.Z. 3) writes that in the future the aku"m will complain to Hashem that it's not fair for us to receive all the reward...

The gemara (Sukkah 28) quotes a derasha to teach that women are obligated in tosefes Yom haKippurim just as men are.  The gemara explains th...

Immediately after kol nidrei we recite the pasuk,"V'nislach l'chol adas Bnei Yisrael... ki l'chol ha'am b'shegagah....

My wife did a post on a shiur we heard from R’ Eli Mansour that both of us enjoyed immensely ( link here ) and which I would recommend lis...

There is a major machlokes Rishonim as to whether the inuyim other than eating and drinking on Yom Kippur are assurim m’doraysa or only m’...

“Vayashav Reuvain el ha’bor,” when Reuvain returned to the pit that Yosef had been tossed into after Reuvain convinced his brothers not to...

Hachacham einav b’Rosho, we are all already looking toward if not looking forward to Rosh HaShana, and at least for me, it seems like ther...

The Tzitz Eliezer (vol 17 siman 27) shares the following beautiful pshat that he said over in one of his Rosh haShana derashos: In t...

Last year I mentioned R’ Baruch Ber’s question of why every lav in the Torah is not considered a lav ha'nitak l’aseh since anyone wh...

While walking to shul one morning I saw my neighbor in front of his house doing what looked like pretty intense stretching exercises and I...

There is no special reason for my posting this picture other than the fact that I think it is beautiful.  My wife took it using a very pl...

I'll make this the l ast word for now on “ V’lo nasan Hashem lachem leiv la’da’as v’eynayim liros v’oznayim lishmo’a ad hayom ha’zeh ....

Last week we discussed Moshe’s admonition to Klal Yisrael that “ V’lo nasan Hashem lachem leiv la’da’as v’eynayim liros v’oznayim lishmo’...

At the end of our parsha Moshe tells Klal Yisrael that “ V’lo nasan Hashem lachem leiv la’da’as v’eynayim liros v’oznayim lishmo’a ad hayo...

One of the quotes below is from a leading Conservative rabbi, one from a Reform rabbi, one from a Reconstructionist rabbi, one from an Ortho...

In Parshas Beha’alosecha Moshe asks his father-in-law Yisro to travel with Klal Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael and promises that, “ V’haya hatov...

Rashi (BaMidbar 29:18) writes that the total of 98 lambs offered on Sukkos correspond to the 98 curses mentioned in the tochacha in Parshas ...

There is a lot of derush on the connection between the last two sections of the parsha (in general one can ask whether there is any order to...

The warning /command not to forget what happened to Miriam when she spoke out against Moshe, “ Zachor eis asher asah Hashem l’Miriam b’der...