Divrei Chaim

"Lo ta'asun kein l'Hashem Elokeichem " (12:4)  What is the " kein " that we are not supposed to do in our avodas...

The gemara (Kesubos 62) relates that after his marriage, Rebbi's son went off to learn for 12 straight years. As a result of his being ...

Ramban (11:6) points out a very strange omission in our parsha.  After relating the great miracle of the destruction of the Egyptian army at...

Chazal tell us that Moshe composed the first bracha of birchas ha'mazon; Yehoshua composed the second.  The Ishbitzer (Mei haShiloach vo...

Rambam (Tefilah 13:2): עזרא תיקן להם לישראל שיהו קורין קללות שבספר ויקרא קודם עצרת ושבמשנה תורה קודם ראש השנה. והמנהג הפשוט שיהו קוראין ב...

1. " Va'Eschanan el Hashem ba'eis ha'hi..."   Why did Moshe choose to daven davka then, ba'eis ha'hi , at that...

I am not aware of any day of the year when the people of Greece gather around the Parthenon and sit and mourn the ruins of their empire.   ...

1. On 9 Av: My wife had an interesting thought on the connection between Yitzchak Avinu and 9 Av here . 2. B'eiver ha'Yarden b...

A few years ago I suggested that the reading if Eicha is a kiyum of kinos, not a chiyuv of kri'as hamegilah like other megilos. This i...

Rashi explains that the list of places in the first pasuk in our parsha all are allusions to sins done in the midbar which Moshe was giving ...

The Chayei Adam points out what seems to be a stirah in MG"A.  In hil Tisha b'Av the MG"A writes that if you are in the middle...

News reports say that Jordan forced a group of tourists to remove their kipot and tzitzis  and expelled them for  the crime of praying at th...

Coming back to the question from earlier in the week: according to the Mordechai's opinion that you can wear a 4 cornered garment on sha...

The leaders of Menashe complained to Moshe that giving land to Bnos Tzelafchad opened the door to the possibility of their tribe losing terr...

The Mordechai holds (see OC siman 13, MG"A) that a person is allowed to wear a 4 cornered garment on shabbos even if it is missing tzit...

1) The GR"A, k'darko, in his peirush on Avos tries to bring sources for every statement in the Mishna. On the first Mishna in Avos ...

1) Rashi explains that the Torah traces Pinchas' lineage back to Aharon as a response to those who claimed that Pinhas came from tainted...

Despite being given the opportunity to receive nevuah and despite seeing the spiritual greatness of Klal Yisrael -- "mah tovu ohalecha...

Rashi writes (25:1) that it was Bilam who advised Moav that the Jewish people would be susceptible to the temptation of znus and instigated...

The Torah tells us that upon reaching Hor HaHar, on the boundaries of the land of Edom, Hashem told Moshe to prepare Aharon for death, ...