Parsha Hashavuah
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...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim: The Holy Diet
At the recent wedding of my nephew, I remarked to his father, my youngest brother, how I noticed he shed quite a few pounds since the last time I saw him. With ...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: Tazriya - Nichum Aveilim "A Last Chance For What Must Come First"
In the laws dealing with the time of impurity after giving birth, the Torah instructs us that there is an initial seven day period of Tuma. The Baal...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Tazria-Metzora: Pain Management
We have all been taught from a very young age that a Metzora, a person afflicted with a specific type of leprosy, is to be isolated from society. The flaw that ...
Rabbi Ori Strum - Reb Shayaleh & the Omer: Active Respect Is the Avodah
Today, 3 Iyar, marks the 100th yartzheit of the great Tzaddik, Rabbi Yeshayaleh Steiner of Kerestir, a.k.a. Reb Shayaleh ! Reb Shayaleh lived from 1851-1925, an...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Tazria-Metzora 5785/2024
Baltimore, MD – April 2025 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddi...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin: Pirkei Avot-Stepping Up
Stepping Up הוּא (הלל) הָיָה אוֹמֵר… בִמְקוֹם שֶׁאֵין אֲנָשִׁים, הִשְׁתַּדֵּל לִהְיוֹת א...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Shemini - No Leftovers!
After the tragic deaths of Nadav and Avihu, the Torah records how 'Moshe spoke to Aharon and to Elazar and Isamar, בניו הנותרים — his remainin...
Watch: Rabbi Shmuel Silber: Yom HaShoah: Tearful Inspiration (Video)
The Holocaust Wikipedia • The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 19...
The Power of a Greeting: What I Miss Most About Baltimore
Baltimore, MD - April 21, 2025 - Recently I received the following email: We had a not-yet-frum friend over for a visit who used to live in Baltimore but now l...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Pesach II 5785/2024
Baltimore, MD – April 2025 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: Shvii Shel Pesach: From the Horses Mouth
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: More Than Singing
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: Pesach: The Power of Achdus
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 ...
Pesach Kashrus Alert: Vapes and Nicotine Pouches Require Rabbinic Approval Due to Chometz Concerns
Baltimore, MD - April 10, 2025 - Vapes and nicotine pouches may contain Chometz or Chometz-derived ingredients. These products must not be used during Pesach u...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Pesach 5785 - Labor of Love
"What is this עבודה — service to you?" The exact nature of this loaded question of the Wicked Son has been explained in many ways. With this utterance t...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: The Real Shabbos Hagadol
There is a long-standing tradition that the Shabbos before Pesach is referred to as Shabbos Hagodol – The Great Shabbos. Virtually every commenta...
Rabbi Ori Strum on AISH - Karpas: The Power of Small Steps
That small piece of vegetable – the first food consumed at the Passover Seder –conveys something powerful: small things matter. Step #3 of the Passover...
Watch: Erev Pesach On Shabbos! What Do I Do? (Video)
Baltimore, MD - April 7, 2025 - Pesach is here. It's a lot of moving parts. This year it's a little bit more interesting. A one in 20 that is Pesach h...
Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber - Beyond Imperfection: A Pesach Perspective
Menachem Chaifetz was a bochur in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin in the 1990s. When he became engaged to the daughter of Rav Avrohom Turin zt”l, the esteemed Mashgiach...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Vayikra: Working Hardly or Hardly Working?
In most years Pesach falls out during the weeks we begin Chumash Vayikra, that introduces the עבודת הקרבנות —the details surrounding th...
Rabbi Dovid Fink: Parshas Vayikra - Vayikra: The "Middle Book
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 becoming an Am, ...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Vayikra 5785/2024
Baltimore, MD – April 2025 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for...
Why Are You Slaughtering Lambs In My Dining Room?! (Video)
For a while, the people of Solterra in Orlando Florida struggled with simmering resentment against the “Passover guests,” as they called the religious Jews ...
Personal Growth: How We Ought to Care For Others
In our last piece, we saw that Avodat Hashem also mandates care for other people. This care includes many levels. All People The Torah prohibits the mur...
Igniting the Geulah Oil with the Simcha Flame
Rosh Chodesh Nissan is nearly here and Pesach is definitely in the air. Walk into the supermarkets and note the blessed fully stocked aisles of Pesach ite...
Rabbi Zvi Teichman On Parshas Pekudei: Never Miss An Appointment!
Nearly a year after the exodus from Egypt, G-d directs Moshe to inaugurate the erecting of the Tabernacle, on the first of the month of Nissan. ביום — On...