Parsha Hashavuah
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 ...
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
The Gemara in Brachos 35b quotes the posuk in Krias Shema discussing gathering your crops. The Gemara asks, what is the chiddush that y...
Rabbi Dovod Fink - Parshas Korach: The Blame Game
Parshas Korach is filled with mussar and lessons which literally flow out of every pasuk. One of the more perplexing psukim comes after Hashem performs th...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman On Parshas Korach: Bringing Out The Best! In Honor Of Our Grandson, Gershon Teichman, Becoming A Bar Mitzvah
Dasan and Aviram went out and stood defiantly at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, children, and infants. (Bamidbar 16 27) Rashi adds, 'Come ...
Our Need for Personal Growth
Our recent pieces have focused on the relationships we are meant to develop — with Hashem and with other people. We now turn to a third type of relationship ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink - Shelach: We Have No Clue
At the beginning of this weeks Parsha we are exposed to one of those anomalies which appears from time to time in the Torah – a double repeated Phrase. ...
Our Past and Future
The last piece addressed our relationships with peers — including spouses, friends, and family. In addition to those relationships, we should also have meanin...
Beyond The Headlines A Weekly Glimpse Into The Israel You Won’t Read About In The News - Shelach: Faith Under Fire
Mazel Tov to Moshe, Dana—and Am Yisrael I’m happy to share a small moment of Jewish civilian heroism—one of so many during these challenging times and th...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Bhaalosecha-Defeating Our Enemies
On the twentieth day of the month of Iyar — after encamping at the base of Mount Sinai for nearly a year — the nation was instructed to begin their journey ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: Behaloscha - You Gotta Really Want it
This week we are introduced to a novel and nearly unique concept in the Torah. Imagine, you are ship wrecked on a desert island and are there for 30 days....
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: When Words Betray Our Story
We were frustratingly so close—just days away—from entering the Land of Israel and launching the golden age of Jewish history. We stood merely a three-day j...
Who Carried the Aron?
In Shemos, Perek Chof Heh, posuk yud daled, the Torah tells us that one must not take out the “badim” (poles) of the Aron...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Naso - Ride 'Em. Cowboy!
A wife who had been warned by her husband from secluding with a man he suspects may have immoral intentions, and then ignores her husband's wishes, may be ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: Naso - Pure Motivations
The beginning of Sefer Bamidbar is truly a magical time. Klal Yisroel has received the Torah. They have been given instructions for and built the Mi...
Kia Issues Recall Of More Than 80,000 Top-selling Vehicles
Kia issued a recall of more than 80,000 top-selling vehicles. Kia America, Inc. has announced a recall affecting 82,281 vehicles due to a software error that m...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Bamidbar - Alive!
I recently shared in an especially uplifting celebration of a young man who became a Bar Mitzva. His parents, who hail from the former Soviet Union, after havin...
Shavuot: Whispers of Sinai in a World of Swords
The struggle to settle our sacred homeland continues. Nearly eighty years after the founding of Medinat Yisrael, and despite our yearning to live in peace with ...
Shavuot 5785: How To Be More Than The Average Joe
Yearning for Meaning Hashem created every one of the world’s eight billion people with a yearning for meaning. Although we all know that we are merely one of...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Behar-Bechukosai: In Pursuit of Happiness
At one stage of the ensuing תוכחה — Admonition, the Torah describes how after being exiled from the land and scattered among the nations G-d will send ti...
Conviction vs. Concession: When We Care What the World Thinks — and When We Absolutely Don’t
Someone sent me a striking article that’s been circulating online (attributed to @AP_from_NY). It’s bold, and makes a powerful point. But as with many stro...
Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber - Toiling in Torah
The Torah tells us in this week's parsha Parshas Bechukosai: "Im bechukosai teileichu v’es mitzvosai tishmoru va’asishem osam" — If you go in My sta...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Emor: Keep Your Lid On!
"It's on your head!" This expression is often hurled at a person about to do something that we suspect will fail with miserable consequences, conveying th...
Pirkei Avot: Creation Appreciation
הוּא (בן עזאי) הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אַל תְּהִי בָז לְכָל אָדָם, וְאַל תְּהִי מַפְלִיג לְכָל דָּ...