Seeing the Good of Jerusalem
All of life is a mixture of good, bad and the neutral. Before the sin of Adam and Chavah eating…
Read MoreAll of life is a mixture of good, bad and the neutral. Before the sin of Adam and Chavah eating…
Read MoreAt the end of this weeks’s parsha we read about the uniqueness of Moshe Rabbeinu’s prophecy: “With him I speak…
Read MoreThe laws of the Sotah are a vehicle to achieve “tzedek” (justice) and “shalom” (peace). It is the absence of…
Read MoreThere is great significance to the fact that God gave us the Torah in the desert and not in Yerushalayim,…
Read MoreIn the beginning of our parsha, God commands Moshe to take a census of the Jewish people. On one hand,…
Read MoreOur parsha teaches that every seven years the farmer in the Land of Israel must leave their land fallow. The…
Read MoreIn regular years, thousands of Jews leave Jerusalem on Lag B’Omer and travel to Meron. This year, however, Lag B’Omer…
Read MoreIt is not by chance that the parsha following Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut this year is Acharei-Mot. The structure…
Read MoreAfter describing the type of leprosy that makes a person a metzora, the Torah describes some of the relevant rules…
Read MoreThe song that Moshe and the Jewish people sang at the sea is roughly divided into two parts. The first…
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