Divrei Chaim

If the answer to "What did you gain over Yom Tov?" is "5 pounds," then there is something wrong, and not just with your...

1) Every shira in the Tanach is associated with a miracle: shiras ha'yam commemorates the splitting of the sea, the shira of the be'...

The Rambam opens Hil Yom Tov with a definition -- what days are called Yom Tov: ששת הימים האלו שאסרן הכתוב בעשיית מלאכה--שהן ראשון ושביעי...

1) The hagadah goes through pesukim describing how Hashem heard the prayers and cries of the Jewish people.  Vata'al shavasam... Vayish...

Rashi and Tosfos disagree as to whether the issur of "lo tishchat al chameitz dam zivchi" applies only to the one offering the kor...

Earlier in the week I posted Rashi's comment that when the time for geulah came, Klal Yisrael was bereft of mitzvos so Hashem had to gi...

The din of learning hilchos hachag in preparation for the chag does not appear in hilchos talmud Torah -- it appears at the beginning of hi...

https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/First-Temple-era-eggshells-offer-crack-at-historical-eating-habits-586827 The Tzlach in Pesachim holds that ...

V'haya lachem lmishmeres... (Shmos 12:6) Rashi asks why it is that the korban pesach  in Mitzrayim, unlike all future korbanos pesa...

Zos ti'hiyeh tahras hametzorah byom taharaso...  The parsha then continues that the metzora comes to the kohen who must perform an exam...

Haven't had much time to think or write lately... Before inyana d'yoma of Shabbos, two notes on inyana d'yoma of Israel's ...

In our parsha the Torah tells us that the metzora is brought to the kohen to be looked at, but in parshas metzorah the Torah tells us that t...

The Torah in our parsha uses the expression "yimol *"bsar** orlaso" but when speaking elsewhere of the mitzvah to mal avadim ...

Parshas parah is the antidote to tumas meis.  When you have no chiyus of your own, when you have no energy and no life left in you, you need...

Rashi comments on the last pasuk in our parsha, "Va'ya'as Aharon u'banav eis kol hadevarim asher tzivah Hashem byad Moshe,...

1) When reading megillah the ba'al korei usually switches to the tune Eichah for the pasuk "... Asher haglah m'Yerushalyim im h...

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 the To...

The Ran in Pesachim writes that when a mitzvah can be done via shliach, the nusach ha'bracha is " al mitzvas...," but when it ...

Last post I mentioned the view of BaHa"G who distinguishes between the chiyuv of men and the chiyuv of women in megillah.  Men are...

The BaHa"G holds that although women are obligated to hear megillah, a woman cannot be motzi a man in reading.  Some Rishonim explain t...