Parsha Potpourri: Parshas Pinchas
Pinchas ben Elozar ben Aharon HaKohen (25:11)
At the end of last week’s parsha, the Jewish people began to sin with the non-Jewish Midianites. Even...
B’Ohel Haneviyim: Parshas Mishpotim 5773
After finishing this week's Sedra we read Parshas Shekalim. The Haftorah reflects this additional Parsha. In Parshas Shekalim Hashem instructs that each Jewish adult...
Waiting Between Hard Cheese & Meat
We all know that after eating meat one has to wait six hours. However, what is less known is that there are some cheeses...
VIDEO: The Shmuz On Parshas Tzav-Zachor
The Shmuz on the Parsha
R’ Ben Tzion Shafier
Parshas Tzav- Zachor
Seize the Moment
Purim
On the 13th of Nissan, Haman approached Achashverosh with his plan: the...
Parsha Potpourri: Parshas Metzora
L'horos b'yom ha'tamei uv'yom ha'tahor zos toras ha'tzara'as (14:57)
A doctor in Jerusalem once approached the Tzitz Eliezer, Rav Eliezer Waldenberg, with an interesting legal...
Vertluch: Parshas Chukas
This weeks parsha discusses the incident of the mai merivoh, where Moshe committed an aveiroh that ultimately led to his punishment of not being...
Rabbi Krakowski: Parshas Beshalach
In the beginning of this week's Sedra the Torah tells us וחמושים עלו בני ישראל מארץ מצרים. Rashi offers two interpretations of the word...
HaRav Zev Leff: Parshas Behar (For Eretz Yisroel)
Adapting to Imperfection
And if you shall say, what will we eat in the seventh year, for we have not planted or gathered in our...
B’Ohel Haneviyim: Parshas Balak 5773
This week's Haftorah is read from Micha. The reason it was selected to accompany Parshas Balak is clear: the Haftorah recounts what transpired between...
Vertluch: Parshas -Shoftim
The end of this week’s parsha discusses the mitzvah of egla arufa where a corpse was found between two cities and it is unknown...
Rabbi Krakowski: Parshas Tetzaveh
Early in this week’s Sedra Hashem instructs Moshe Rabeinu to appoint Aharon his brother to be the Kohen Gadol. The Medrash tells us that...
Vertluch: Parshas Balak
Parshas Balak relates one of the most legendary stories from our history; where Bilam’s donkey spoke up and answered him back. If you read...
Vertluch: Parshas Nitzavim & Rosh Hashana 5773
In the beginning of the parsha, Moshe relays to klal Yisroel, how they must ‘establish themselves as His people, and that He should be...
Halachically Speaking: Food In The Hands Of A Non-Jew (Part 4)
Compiled by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits who can be reached at [email protected]
Reviewed by Rabbi Ben-zion Schiffenbauer Shlita
All Piskei Harav Yisrael Belsky Shlita are Reviewed...
Rabbi Krakowski: Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei
PARSHAS VAYAKHEL:
This week's Sedra opens by telling us that Moshe Rabeinu assembled all of Klal-Yisroel. Moshe Rabeinu did so in order to instruct Am-Yisroel...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayetzei
After Yaakov worked fourteen years for Leah and Rachel, and settles his differences with Lavan -the pasuk states. ‘And Yaakov heard the words of...
HaRav Zev Leff: Parshas Vayechi
Yosef's "Sweet Revenge"
... And they said, "Perhaps Yosef will nurse hatred against us . . ." (Bereishis 50 15).
Upon returning from burying Yaakov, Yosef's...
Rabbi Krakowski: Parshas Balak
This week’s Sedra recounts the fascinating episode of Balak’s hiring of Bilam for the purpose of cursing Klal-Yisroel. Balak sends emissaries to Bilam asking...
Rabbi Krakowski: Parshas Naso
This week’s Sedra contains the Parsha of Sota. The term ‘Sota’ refers to a married woman who secludes herself with another man despite her...