Divrei Chaim

 המאכילך מן במדבר למען ענותך  What kind of suffering could there be in having mon to eat?  The gemara in Yoma (74b) comments  אמר אינו דומה ...

1) The scariest thing about what is going on at Columbia, Yale, MIT,  et al, is that the radical Jew hater students of today are the profess...

If you're still a reader here you know in the past few weeks we've been doing some of R' Shteinman's torah on the parsha.  I...

The day after the Iran attack, I thought we should say hallel.  Whether the "we" should be everyone, or those living in Eretz Yisr...

My son quotes a letter of the L Rebbe in which he writes that it's not by accident that Pesach comes in chodesh ha'aviv.  During the...

1)  Just to make it a chazakah of 3 weeks in a row with R' Shteinman's torah: R' Shteinman has a safeik whether the kohen who r...

One or more of the local supermarkets has for years has offered a free box of 5lbs of matzah if you spend some amount on groceries before Pe...

Last week I mentioned the Rogatchover's chakira whether the simanei kashrus of an animal are a siman or a sibah, i.e. is it the actual ...

Like I said last week, the Ayeles haShachar provides a lot of food for thought, and I could go on and on, but just a few more highlights: 1)...

1) The gemara (Pesachim 6) has a din שואלין ודורשין בהלכות הפסח קודם הפסח שלשים יום which is derived from the fact that Moshe taught the hal...

Yes, I know it's too early to do posts about Pesach, but saw this in the supermarket and can't resist.  If you see these candles on ...

I usually don't post on weekends, but I am stuck in front of the computer taking care of some work related things today. Tablet Magazin...

  ת"ר כשמן הטוב היורד על הראש וגו' כמין שתי טיפין מרגליות היו תלויות לאהרן בזקנו אמר רב כהנא תנא כשהוא מספר עולות ויושבות בעיקרי זק...

1) One of the things I like about R' Shteinman's torah is that his questions/answers are not far-flung lomdus, but are, dare I say i...

1) My wife pointed out that the seudah of Achashveirosh was 180 days.  ונהפּוך הוא!  We needed to correct that to earn the holiday of Purim. ...

1) See my wife's blog for a nice take on the relationship between Esther and Sarah. 2) There is a machlokes Rebbi and Chachamim whether...

The gemara (Meg 7b) follows up on Rava's statement  אמר רבא מיחייב איניש לבסומי בפוריא עד דלא ידע בין ארור המן לברוך מרדכי with a story:...

This is more meaningful than anything I have to say about parshas zachor: I originally had the idea for this post early in the week, but the...

R' Chaim Elazari in his sefer Darkei Chaim ( p 172 ) quotes the Mabi"T who asks how it is that we achieve kaparah when the Torah sa...

Rashi in our parsha alludes to the gemara in Brachos (55a): א"ר שמואל בר נחמני א"ר יונתן בצלאל על שם חכמתו נקרא בשעה שאמר לו הקדוש...