Parsha Hashavuah
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Rosh Hashana - To Dream the Possible Dream
Traditionally, among Ashkenazi Jewry we spend a week or more of reciting Selichos in preparation of Rosh Hashana. Our Sephardic brethren have been at it sin...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Netzavim
Towards the end of Parshas Nitzavim, there are twenty Psukim within which the Torah refers to the Brachos and Klalos, which were just delivered on Har Grizim an...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Ki Savo - Home Grown Curses
This week we read the Admonition, the slew of curses that will befall our nation if we do not adhere to the Torah. The total number of curses enumerated i...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Ki TzeiTzei
Bnei Yisroel were given specific instructions on who is eligible and who may serve as a soldier in the conquest of Eretz Yisroel. Exemptions were given ...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Ki Seitzei - Take the Chill Out
Twenty-eight years ago, I arrived in Baltimore with my family to assume the role of Principal of the High School at Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. For nine...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Shoftim - Tear Down This Wall
But if a man, שונא — hates his fellow, lies in wait for him and rises up against him, ומכה נפש — and strikes him mortally, ומת — and he di...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Re'eh - Time to Connect
The Torah forewarns how there may come a time when a prophet or a dreamer will produce to you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder comes about, of which...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Eikev - The Window of Our Soul
Twice daily we recite within the second paragraph of the Shema the verse where G-d commands us לעבדו — to serve Him, בכל לבבכם — with all your ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Vaeschanan: We Have so Much!!
Much has been written about the relatively minor differences between the Aseres Hadibros given by Hashem in Parshas Yisro and those repeated in this week’s Pa...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Vaeschanan - Love Forever
Each evening before we recite the Shema, we say the blessing of Ahavas Olam expressing gratitude for G-d's eternal love. Towards the end of the blessing w...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Devarim - Hold on Tight!
Moshe recalls how when the Children of Israel approached the territory of Sichon G-d instructed them to drive them out and provoke war with them. In the very n...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Matos/Masei- Do You Hear Me?
The Torah records this week the forty-two encampments we traveled to over the course of our thirty-eight year sojourn through the desert before entering the lan...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Massei "Home"
Parshas Massei begins with reciting our journey from Mitzrayim to Eretz Yisroel, listing all the stops along the way. Many meforshim point out the spiritu...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Pinchas: It's Not Just What We Say...
There are many places in the Torah where we see the effect of different types of behavior. Anger inevitably leads to mistakes, kindness can have positive ...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Pinchas - Overcoming Trauma
A nation is traumatized. In a frenzy of immorality, instigated through the counsel of Bilaam, the Moabite women not only seduce the general populace to debauch...
Janet S. Sunness, MD, on Shabbos Chazon: Mourning for Yerushalayim
In the first Haftorah of the Three Weeks, Yirmiyahu sees a vision of a bare almond branch. He describes this to Hashem as “makel shakaid” an...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Never Capped Out - Korach (2026/5786)
Just this past week I was driving to 2:30 Mincha at Tov Pizza, and there was a car in front of me with a sticker that caught my eyes. It read: DO YOU FOLLOW JES...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Korach - We Shall Return to You!
This past week I had the privilege to address the entire 4th and 5th graders at Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim — Talmudical Academy of Baltimore, as they celebrated t...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Shelach - Who is the Real You?
The Torah recounts how after the enumeration of the names of the spies who were to scout out the land, ויקרא משה — Moshe called הושע — Hoshea so...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Behaalosicha - Thinking of You
The Torah testifies that Moshe was ענו מאד — exceedingly humble, more than any person on the face of the earth. (במדבר יב ג) The Arizal reveals...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Naso: It's All in a Name
"…Who has sanctified us with holiness of Aharon and has commanded us to bless His people Israel באהבה — with love." Although the Torah clea...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Shavuos 5786: B'Ahava Rabbah!
We arrived at Mount Sinai on Rosh Chodesh Sivan and waited to receive the Torah the subsequent Shabbos. The students of the saintly Rebbe, Reb Menachem Mendel ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Bamidbar: Individuality Makes The Klal
Parshas Bamidbar commences with the tziva from Hashem to once again take a census of Bnei Yisroel. (Bamidbar 1:2) Hashem is very explicit that the census ...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Behar/Bechukosai - To Life!
BJL apologizes to Rabbi Teichman for not having posted this on Erev Shabbos...uIf you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will grant your...
Watch & Read - Rabbi Ori Strum: Be Like an Ant: A Lag BaOmer Message (Video)
Baltimore, MD - May 5, 2026 - Every now and then we get those pesky little ants in our home that crawl in and around the kitchen, seemingly minding their own bu...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Emor: Reaching the Peak
We are amid counting the forty-nine days that bridge the holiday of Pesach and Shavuos. We start our count from the second day of Pesach when the עומר — a...
Watch: HaRav Michoel Sorotzkin - The Humility That Saved Torah- Feature about Rabi Akiva (Video)
From the tragedy of Sefiras HaOmer to the light of Lag BaOmer, this shiur uncovers the timeless lesson that Torah can only endure where humility and honor dwell...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Acharei Mos/Kedoshim: The Land of Our Soul
At the conclusion to the presentation of the laws pertaining to forbidden relationships in the portion of Acharei Mos, the Torah seemingly utilizes very graphic...