Parsha Hashavuah
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Vayelech-Shuva: The Road to Zion
The world is in turmoil. A war is waging in Ukraine. Cities are enraged over perceived injustices. Violence seems to be the only response to disagreement. Our l...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Parshas Vayelech - He Just Went
Someone once approached the Tchebiner Rav zt”l – HaRav Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881-1965) – and told him that he has older children who have not found thei...
Rabbi Dovid Fink -Shabbos Shuva: The Goal of the Gift
After learning in Yeshiva full time for five years after High School, I was fortunate to be able to learn half days, several days a week when I was first marrie...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Sefer Yonah and the Belief in Teshuvah
Yonah at Minchah The Levush explains that we read Sefer Yonah during Minchah of Yom Kippur because it vividly demonstrates the incredible power of teshuvah.[1]...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman - Yom Hazikaron: A Day of Remembering
Rosh Hashana, the first of Tishrei, commemorates the first 'birthday' in history — that of Adam. There is one other birthday famously celebrated in...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Nitzavim - You Too Can Become a Stam Yid!
You are standing today, כולכם — all of you, before your G-d — your heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your officers, — כל איש ישראל...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Nitzavim: Time to Choose
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 Dovid Jaffee: Why Don’t our Kabbalos (resolutions) Seem to Work? A New Perspective
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 18, 2025 - As Rosh Hashanah approaches, many of us try to think of various kabbalos (resolutions) to make for the coming year. We ar...
Rabbi Dovid Fink -Ki Savo - A New Chance To Excel
In Sefer Dvarim, we are treated to one of several places where Hashem uses a particular term of endearment for B’nei Yisroel, referring to us as the “Am Seg...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Ki Savo: Upholding the World
As soon as the nation entered the Land, they were instructed to assemble by two mountains. The Levites would stand in the valley between them, first facing Moun...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Selichot 5785 - The Work of Everyday Decency
This Motzaei Shabbat, Ashkenazi communities will begin saying Selichot, joining Sephardim who have already been immersed in these prayers since Elul began. With...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: The Cardinal Sins
We all know that the 613 mitzvot consist of two types: mitzvot aseh and mitzvot lo taaseh. In contrast to the mitzvot aseh, which offer positive opportuni...
Rabbi Dovid Fink -Ki Seitzei - Crossing Lines
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 fo...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Ki Seitzei - The Chosen
The holy Sochatchover points out that the prayer we say at the end of the blessing of Ahava Rabba right before Shma each morning: ובנו בחרת מכל עם ...
Minyan for Amalek
Posuk yud zayin in Perek chof heh in Chumash Devarim tells us that we should remember what Amalek did to Bnei Yisroel. That is why we have t...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Shoftim - A Prince of a Man: L'ilui Nishmas Yedid Nafshi Oz-R' Shalom Yosef ben HaRav Zvi, z'l
לעילוי נשמת ידיד נפשי עוז ר' שלום יוסף בן הרב צבי ע"ה A king must write a Torah that will always be with him. ו...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Re'eh: We Can Overcome!
We will herald this Shabbos the month of Elul. On the first of the new month, we will begin to blow the Shofar. Pirkei D'Rebbe Eliezer points out that on ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Re'Eh: Universal View
Har Hamoriya, Har Habayis, Makom Hamikdash, the point from which the Earth was formed, this special place on our planet has a recorded history dating back thous...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: A Nation Unashamed By Our “Story”
When events erupt in real time, they are difficult to process. When they unfold at a rapid, almost breathless pace, the challenge becomes even greater. Such was...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Freedom To Focus
The Linkage of Freedom to Torah Torah learning is not just a central mitzvah. It is also the only way to achieve true freedom. Rebbe Yehoshua ben Levi deriv...
Rabbi Ori Strum: Parshas Ekev 5785/2025 – Sparks Collectors, Not Garbage Collectors
Even as an adult, I still find myself mesmerized by the weekly morning garbage pickup — the rumble of the truck, the excessively loud beeping of the backup al...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Eikev: I Don't Want You to Fail
Parshas Eikev falls between the two places in the Torah where we are warned of the calamities which would befall Klal Yisroel if they turned away from Hashem.&n...
BJL Traffic Alert: Fire on Rambling Ridge Way (Photos)
Baltimore, MD – Aug. 14, 2025 – 5:04PM – Be advised of a fire at an apartment complex at 1803 Rambling Ridge Way, across from Moses Montefiore Anshe Emuna...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Eikev - Every Yid's a Big Tzaddik
This past week was a particularly difficult one for me since the beloved individual who greatly impacted my life's trajectory passed away. Rav Avro...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - VaEschanan "What's In Your Basket?"
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 Ori Strum: Parshas Vaeschanan (Shabbos Nachamu) 5785/2025 – Intertwining Redwoods
I still remember the strain on my neck as I stood by the base of a gigantic redwood, slowly looking up to try and see the top of the tree, which – in my 10-ye...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Vaeschanan: The Privilege of Suffering
See, I have imparted to you, laws and rules, as י-ה-ו-ה אלוקי — G-d my Lord, has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to ...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: The Three Pillars
הוּא [שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק] הָיָה אוֹמֵר, עַל שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָעוֹלָם עוֹמֵד, עַל הַ...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Rav Kook’s Message for Tisha B’Av 5785
The Churban “All the Roman commanders who saw the internal conflict among the Jews viewed it as a gift from heaven and urged an immediate attack. But V...
Rabbi Dovid Fink -Mattos: The Heavy Lifters
Parshas Mattos provides us with some valuable insights into the concepts of responsibility, Hakaras Hatov and the merits of being part of a Tzibbur. After...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Matos/Masei - Give It Your All!
After taking revenge against the Midianites for their having infiltrated the sanctity of the Children of Israel by seducing them to sin — causing 24,000 death...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin on Parshat Matos/Massei - The Unpromised Land
For forty years we wandered the desert, passing through forty-two desolate locations. What was meant to be a short journey from Egypt to Israel, lasting just a ...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Pinchas: Visiting Day
Most years the portion of Pinchos is read during the Shabbosos of Bein HaMetzarim, ‘between the straits’ of the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av. It is ave...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin on Parshat Pinchas: A Silent Mountain of Hope and Tears
Jewish history unfolded across many legendary mountains. Our story is etched into numerous mountaintops of joy and revelation. On a desert cliff named Sinai—...
Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber - If We Believe It, They'll Become It
We’ve all heard it, said half in jest, half in resignation: "This generation of kids… it’s just not like it used to be." Yes, there’s truth behind thos...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Shabbat: Understanding Rest and Creation
Importance — Parshat Bereishit The Torah's first chapter describes Hashem’s creation of the world. Interestingly, after detailing His creations ...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Balak: A Nation of Lions
A verse from this week's reading has become popular internationally during the recent campaign Israel waged against Iran. Behold! עם כלביא — A na...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Chukas: Our Moral World
As Bnei Yisroel continue through the midbar on their way to Eretz Yisroel, we are shown in vivid clarity, the face of evil. Moshe requests permission from...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Chukas: A Fight to the Finish
As long as Aharon lived, the Clouds of Glory protected the Children of Israel. With his passing the clouds departed as well. The nation Amalek — in the guise ...