Parsha Hashavuah
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...
Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber - The Richest Person in the Room
From the outside, it looked like Shmuel had everything a child could possibly want. It wasn’t just that his family was well-off; it was that his life seemed ...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Man is an Entire World Tazria/Metzora (2026/5786)
A Jew is meant to wake up and begin his day like... PAUSE FOR A MOMENT.How would you complete that first sentence? I think most people would naturally conc...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Tazria/Metzora: Arise and Shine
The beloved Gadol Hador, Reb Moshe Feinstein, would emit a krechtz — deep sigh, at the onset of the month of Iyar. When asked what the problem was, he would s...
Beyond The Headlines A Weekly Glimpse Into The Israel You Won’t Read About In The News - Parashat Tazria-Metzora
Implications of a Matzah Shortage Many in Israel encountered a matzah shortage on Pesach. “There’s no matzah in the supermarket.” “Does anyone have ext...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Shemini: Hang On Tight!
How lovely are your footsteps בנעלים — in sandals, O daughter of nobles! This verse in the Song of Songs (7 2) extols the 'daughter' of...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Shvii Shel Pesach
On the 7th day of Pesach, we commemorate the Greatest Nes done in the presence of man. 600,000 people witnessed the Splitting of the Sea and all of the other as...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Nirtzah: Not Just The Closing Ceremonies
There are two major concepts which form the driving force of the Hagaddah and the Seder in general. First, is the Chiyuv Sipur Yitzias Mitraim, ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - A Few Thoughts for Pesach 5786
As we bask in the afterglow of our Sedarim, where we retold the story of Yitzias Mitzrayim and we prepare for the last days of Pesach, where we mark Kriyas Yam ...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Pesach: The Night We Remember, The War We Are Living
The Torah assigns the night of Pesach a striking name: Leil shimurim. On the simplest level, it describes the condition on the night of Yetziat Mitzrayim itself...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: We Are Living the Haggaddah
We are a nation of memory. We hold tightly to our past, marking the great turning points of our history. That past is not a relic of culture. It lives within us...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Another Way to View Struggles - Tzav (Shabbos HaGadol 2026/5786)
Life would be quite different with a Navi (prophet). Think about the numerous questions we deal with over the course of our lives. I'm not talking about qu...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Tzav/Shabbos Hagadol - Saving our Souls
Although we were introduced to the various offerings in the Mishkan as outlined in the portion of Vayikra, this week in Tzav many other details are added. In o...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Tzav/Shabbos Hagadol - The Power of Shabbos
There is a long-standing tradition that the Shabbos before Pesach is referred to as Shabbos Hagodol – The Great Shabbos. Virtually every commentary rela...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Everything is Spiritual - Vayikra (2026/5786)
"Jewish physical matter is spiritual." This teaching from the Alter Rebbe (as quoted in HaYom Yom for 27 Teves) is one of the most fundamental principles of Yid...
From Egypt to Unity: The Spiritual Meaning of the Seder
The central goal of the Seder night is to strengthen our אמונה פשוטה, simple and pure faith, and to feel as though we ourselves are leaving מצרים...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Vayikra- Yashrus
For many people, the commencement of Sefer Vayikra marks a distinct departure in the Torah from the telling of the history of the world and our becomi...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Vayikra: How Sweet It Is!
Once a year we confront our archenemy — Chometz, leaven bread, eradicating it from our homes. In the days when the Temple stood, there was a daily batt...
Beyond The Headlines A Weekly Glimpse Into The Israel You Won’t Read About In The News - Parashat Vayikra: Among the Ruins - Unity
Last week, in a single moment of terror, a missile fell near the home of the parents of the Peretz family in Beit Shemesh. The house that had been filled with m...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Vayakheil/Pekudei: Ha!
The Book of Shemos spans the most remarkable era in our history — from slavery to the exodus to the revelation at Sinai and the construction of an abode for t...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Vayakheil/Pekudei:-Imitation is the Highest Form of Avoda
Sefer Shemos concludes with the much anticipated completion of the Mishkan. Several Parshiyos were devoted to the details of its construction, how to craf...
Light Snow and Freezing Rain Expected Monday Into Tuesday
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 2, 2026 - Much of the forecast area is expected to experience some winter weather on Monday and Tuesday. A light band of precipitation is...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Parshas Ki Tisa - Fear and the Choice of Courage
Moshe’s delay in returning from the mountain unsettled the young nation. Had he been lost in the fire atop Sinai during the revelation? How could we survive w...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Tetzaveh - Gut, Klug und Frum!
It is taught in the schools of the Vilna Gaon and Rav Tzadok, that there are three nations that encompass all the other nations of the world. Esav, the 'g...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Tetzaveh Of the People
In introducing us to the majesty of the Kohen Gadol and his special garments, our parsha makes a distinct point of telling us that this position was unique...
Janet S Sunness, MD on Parshas Tetzaveh: The Kohein Gadol and Us - L'Zeicher Nishmas my Mother Whose Yahrtzeit is 8 Adar
In memory of my beloved mother, whose yahrtzeit is 8 Adar. May her neshama have an aliyah The parshiyos we are reading now and in the coming few weeks ar...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Megillat Esther: Models of Leadership
How to Lead When Hashem Is Silent Throughout Tanach, Hashem uses prophecy to guide Jewish leaders. Hashem’s clear guidance meant that leadership genera...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Terumah: Permanent Resident
They shall make a Sanctuary for Me — so that I may dwell among them. (שמות כה ח) The Torah goes on to detail the many details of this abode for the Sh...
From Rebelling to Defending
Naftuli Moster had grown up chassidish but had left the fold, and for years he made it his mission to challenge the world he came from. He believed he had been...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Parshas Mishpatim: Hashem's Love
One of the Torah’s fundamental principles, cited in Parshas Mishpatim, is the concept of eyen tachas eyen, shayn tachas sheyn – that the Torah ascribes puni...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Mishpatim - The Table is Set
In the Torah's first foray in presenting the details of its intricate system of law, in this case the gamut of civil law, it uses an expression rarely used...