Divrei Chaim

Everyone is concerned these days about identity theft.  This week I want to talk about the topic of acquiring a new identity, or actually id...

I’ve removed the identifying information from this e-mail : “At the end every1 sang Hatikva together and the … girls just had to stand there...

I've been very unmotivated to write lately, but this week for some reason felt like jotting some more down.  In a post last week I menti...

1) The Torah usually devotes itself to speaking about what G-d did, promised to do, or wants us to do. Our parsha is somewhat unique in tha...

“V’higadta l’bincha bayom ha’hu leimor ba’avur zeh asah Hashem li b’tzeisi m’Mitzrayim.” There are two words that we use to mean because: ba...

One quick follow up on the post I did last week re: kaddish.  My wife noted that given that kaddish is just one small ingredient in what ca...

I don’t know if it’s fair to be madayeik in 2 works of the Netziv in Ha’amek She’eilah – I’ll write and you can decide. Rashi on the first ...

This is my final week of saying kaddish for my father HK”M. I remember when I was sitting shiva someone suggested that I should write somet...

R’ Noson Gestetner in his sefer on chumash asks what right the meyaldos ha’ivriyos , Shifra and Pu'ah, had to be moseir nefesh to save t...

When Moshe complained to Hashem, “ Lamah ha’rei’osa l’am hazeh lamah zeh shi’lachtani ,” Hashem responded  that Moshe would see what would ...

Some parsha thoughts: 1) Hashem told Moshe that if Bnei Yisrael did not believe him, he should give them a sign by pouring water before the...

When Moshe argues to G-d that Bnei Yisrael will not believe that he was sent as their redeemer, it sounds like a question local to the cont...

My daughter has a bad habit of reading news on a so called frum site and leaving the browser open so I end up seeing it when I sit down at t...

I've been blogging so long I remember the good 'ol days of fighting with other bloggers about orthopraxy and fundamental beliefs.  R...

Last post was a little lomdus, so this will be a little derush on the parsha. I noticed that fewer and fewer people are reading blogger.  Ma...