A Nation Rising and Roaring Like a Lion
It is no coincidence that Israel courageously attacked Iran in the week the Torah portion tells us: “When you are at war in your land against an aggressor who attacks you, you shall sound short blasts on the trumpets, that you may be remembered before your God and be delivered from your enemies.”
The Remarkable Israeli Soldier: Holy Of Holies
This generation is truly remarkable. They do not flee from hardship. They strive for the elite units, the most dangerous positions, not because of ego or pride, but because they yearn to be protectors.
Refusing To Join The Army
The Rogatchover Gaon emphasizes specifically that Eretz Yisrael is only acquired through tribulation (Brachot 5), noting how inappropriate it is for someone to expect to gain the fruits of the labor of another – especially when somebody has to go to war to defend the land and somebody else expects to just sit at home and benefit from this.
A Summer Warning
Many marriages have been ruined by the well-meaning but poor advice of friends.
Pure Emunah
The aveirah of the meraglim was their own lack of faith, and their determination to weaken the faith of the Jewish nation.
The First Step
When the spies returned with a bunch of grapes so big it could only be carried by ten people and one fig which could hardly be carried by one person, instead of praising the land which grew such produce, they became concerned that the price of such opulence was too expensive and that they would not be able to afford to pay for it with mitzvot.
Moonlighting Spies
Think about this for a moment. They were just about to enter Eretz Yisrael and Eldad and Meidad's prophecy revealed that Moshe would die and Yehoshua would lead Bnei Yisrael into the land flowing with milk and honey. Did this phase Moshe? Not in the least.
Carrying the Light Forward
Some 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov wrote a statement that I find amazing: The time will come when being an upright and simple person will be as revolutionary as being the Baal Shem Tov.
The Ner Tamid
If a person ploughs his field when it is time to plow, sows his seeds when it is time to sow, reaps his produce when it is time to reap , thrashes his grain when it is time to thrash and winnows the grain when it is time to winnow, when will he have time to learn Torah? (Berachos 35b).
Mann Power
We cannot totally control our sustenance – not the food we eat, nor the money we earn.
Parshat Beha’alotecha: Lighting the Flame of Moral Clarity
This is Judaism’s unique gift: the slow accumulation of wisdom through repeated encounters with Torah. Not through theoretical lectures, but through real life examples.
Elevating The Light Of Israel
Every time we discover a new Torah deMoshe MiSinai, an unprovenanced edict associated colloquially with Moshe, we are reaffirming our connection to that primary source of all Torah and to Moshe who passed it on to us.
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Behaalotcha: Aliyah and Age
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.— Christian Morgenstern
The Significance of a Minhag
He leaped off the jeep, shouting that he’d take the next one.
A Matter of Faith
Know Hashem in all your ways – serious or inconsequential – for every ounce of success comes from Hashem.
Investing in “Hell Insurance”
As we are taught, Ein tzaddik ba’aretz asher yaaseh tov v’lo yecheta – There is no righteous person in this world who does good and doesn’t sin, there is certainly what to worry about.
With All One’s Heart
Wealth can also lead one astray: Wealth hoarded by its owner is to his detriment (Koheles 5:12). Avshalom was blessed with beautiful hair (Sotah 11a) and Shimshon was blessed with strength, but these attributes led them astray.
The Longest Chapter, the Deepest Exile
Parshat Naso, as you know, is the longest single parsha in the Torah. In most years, Naso follows Shavuot, which is appropriate – once...
A Vision
With regard to the Birkas Kohanim, the Zohar comments that actions performed in this earthly world inspire astounding conduct in Heaven. When the Kohanim spread their fingers to bless the Jewish people, it rouses the Divine Presence to dwell upon His people.
Blessing Israel
Israel is blessed in the merit of the three fathers, also in whose merit the Torah was given.
What They’ll Never Understand About the Jews
Our response now must be as it like at Har Sinai, to turn to one another with a sense of oneness, love, and unity and to wish each other chazak
Tuning In
Like in an election, the division of the land among the twelve tribes had to be supervised by officials who made sure that there would be no fraud involved in allocating the land.
Shavuot – Why Is This Night Different?
Pesach and Shavuot...represent the liberation of the body and the liberation of the mind, respectively.
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Bamidbar: The Discipline of Sanctity
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.— Proverb (widely attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)
A Central Theme of Shavuos
How do Torah scholars make more peace in the world?
The Spiritual Human Being
R’ Elazar states that all agree, though, that on the holiday of Shavuos, we are obligated to eat and drink because it is the day on which the Torah was given. R’ Shimshon Nachmani, the renowned Zera Shimshon, notes that this conclusion seems paradoxical. We would think that the day commemorating the giving of the Torah would be dedicated solely to spirituality, to Torah study.
Gravity Defying Bread – Bamidbar
The total weight of the shulchan with the lechem hapanim was over 551 pounds.
50 Years – The Productive Life of Man
Indeed the laws of Shemittah were meant to be given at Har Sinai because the original plan was that we would enter the land of Israel a short while later, not forty years later.
The Good News: Parashat Bechukotai
Unlike the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land, the return to Zion in modern times has been a natural event within the confines of nature.
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