Divrei Chaim

Last in the list of items donated for the Mishkan mentioned in the opening of P' Terumah are the precious stones of the avnei milu'i...

Sorry, not a lot of time this week, so this will be brief.  2 quick points. 1) " Kol milchama ba'machaneh ."  Yehoshua was t...

The Mishna (Meg 6) writes that if the megillah was read in Adar Rishon, it must be re-read in Adar Sheni or you are not yotzei. The Mishna ...

1. The Maharal in Gur Aryeh (Parshas Matos) explains the difference between the nevuah of Moshe " b'ispaklarya ha'mei'ira ...

1) R' Bachyei says something extraordinary on last week's parsha.  He writes that the keruvim are there to remind us of the existenc...

1) The Rambam writes in Hil Beis HaBechira (1:12): והכל חייבין לבנות ולסעד בעצמן ובממונם אנשים ונשים כמקדש המדבר . "Everyone has to par...

In Sivan Rahav-Meir's parsha shiur last week she noted how until Parshas Mishpatim, the Torah is a book of stories -- narrative, not law...

This limud should be l'zecher nishmas my father whose yahrzeit is this Shabbos. Meforshim are bothered by the term "eved ivri....

" Va'ya'aminu BaHashem u'b'Moshe avdo..."  That's emunah?! To believe after you see a sea split in two and w...

Chazal tell us that the attack of Amalek happened because " rafu  Y'DEIHEM min haTorah ," because Klal Yisrael neglected thei...

We know that Moshe did not strike the Nile to turn it to blood because the river had protected him as a baby when his mother sent him floati...

Three short ideas: 1) On Jan 1 we had the privilege in the 5Towns of hearing a shiur from R' Baruch Simon.  One idea he quoted from R...

Va'yar ish Mitzri make is Ivri... vayach es haMitzri R' Soloveitchik ( quoted by R' Shachter ) explained derech derush that Eg...

When Pharoah's daughter discovered a basket floating down the river, the Torah tells us, " VaTiftach va'tireyhu es ha'yeled...

Last post I mentioned Rashi's explanation that Parshas VaYechi is a parsha stuma to indicate that the hearts of Bnei Yisrael became clos...

Parshas Va'Yechi is a parsha stuma, a closed parsha, meaning there is no space break between the end of last week's parsha and the b...

1) A few weeks/months ago, around the time of the Yamim Noraim, Sivan Rahav Meir visited the NY area and spoke in a few shuls and schools.  ...

From the "halacha yomi" from Yeshiva Har Bracha (my translated paraphrase ): There fast of 10 Teves commemorates three things.  ...

The first thing Yosef asked his brothers after revealing himself is, " Ha'od avi chai ?"  Is my father still alive?  Everybo...

Chazal tell us that of all the brothers, Yosef most closely resembled Yaakov.  How then did the brothers not recognize him during any of the...