Divrei Chaim

From   https://www.yeshiva.org.il/article/10759 הרב דוד חי הכהן,  ראש ישיבת בת ים ורב קהילה בעיר הורה בעקבות החיסולים של הבכירים כי אין לומר...

  וַיֹּ֤אמֶר ה׳ אֶל⁠־מֹשֶׁ֔ה עֲלֵ֛ה אֶל⁠־הַ֥ר הָעֲבָרִ֖ים הַזֶּ֑ה וּרְאֵה֙ אֶת⁠־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל  וְרָאִ֣יתָה...

Why does the Torah mention the yichus of Pinchas at the opening of our parsha?  Rashi explains: לפי שהיו שבטים מבזין אותו: הראיתם בן פוטי זה...

There is an essay entitled "Decline and Blumenthal" in the collection With My Trousers Rolled: Familiar Essays , by Joseph Epstein...

The very first din in Shulchan Aruch, יתגבר כארי לעמוד בבוקר לעבודת בוראו, is based, according to GR"A on our parsha.  The Midrash writ...

I saw in the Divrei Siach parsha sheet (from the torah of R' Chaim Kanievsky) that even if a katan fasts on 17 Tamuz, he should not reci...

Back in 2007 I posted the question of my then 6 year old daughter as to why Aharon had to be punished when the sin of mei meriva was done b...

The last Mishna in the third perek of R"H writes: וְהָיָה כַּאֲשֶׁר יָרִים משֶׁה יָדוֹ וְגָבַר יִשְׂרָאֵל וְגוֹ׳ (שמות י״ז:י״א), וְכִי ...

One cannot help but think of current events when reading the short three pasuk episode (21:1-3) that describes the attack against Bn"Y ...

Biden's debate performance speaks for itself, so let's turn to other things.  1) Kamala Harris proved that she can really cut throug...

The gemara (B"B 74a) among the aggadic stories of Rabbah bar bar Channa recounts the following episode that relates to events in our pa...

There is a custom quoted in SA (OC 580) to fast on 17 Elul as this is the anniversary of the day the meraglim died.  The MB (sk 8) quotes th...

The gemara (Shaboos 134) says that one is allowed to be mechalel shabbos to wash a baby on the third day after milah.  Some Rishonim hold th...

I figured I would post this week's "vote Democrat = suicide" update before the debate, as that will probably be it's own r...

A mere sixteen years ago when the daf hayomi was doing Nazir I posted a kashe of the Shaar haMelech that I left unanswered. There are Rishon...

For some reason there are people still clinging to the belief that voting for Biden and Democrats is the right thing to do, even though it i...

 Chazal tell us that Doeg was a gadol ha'dor, a brilliant talmid chacham, but his Torah was מן השׂפה לחוץ (Sanhedrin 106b).  It was all e...

1) It's hard to write something on the parsha when we are barely out of Yom Tov, but I don't want to skip a week, so I am going to c...

1)  וכל העם ראים את הקולת ואת הלפידם ואת קול השפר ואת ההר עשן וירא העם וינעו ויעמדו מרחק (Shmos 20:14). Once the reisha of the pasuk tells u...

The Shl"H has a special tefilah to recite on erev rosh chodesh Sivan for the sake of one's children and grandchildren.  In additio...