Vertluch: Parshas Terumah
This week’s parsha discusses the building of the mishkan. The Ramban raises an interesting question. Sefer Bereishis is called sefer Hayetzira (the book of...
Vertluch: Parshas Ki Savo
When Moshe was ready to give the brachos and the klalos, the Torah says that he divided the shevatim between two mountains. Six shevatim...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayakhel
Betzalel made the Aron of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a...
Vertluch: Parshas Bamidbar
Parshas Bamidbar begins with the counting of klal yisroel. When reading the parsha it seems rather evident that the commandment given to Moshe Rabbeinu...
Vertlach: Parshas Vayeishev
In this week’s parsha, Yosef was confronted with a nisayon from the wife of Potiphar. On a basic level, this was an incredible temptation...
Vertluch: Parshas Beha’aloscha
At the end of this weeks parsha we find that Aharon and Miriam say something derogatory about Moshe. ‘Miriam and Aharon spoke against Moses...
Vertluch: Parshas Va’era
‘That is Aaron and Moshe, to whom Hashem said, "Take the bnei Yisroel out of the land of Mitzayim with their legions. They are...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayikra
The parsha begins with the pasuk describing how Hashem called Moshe into the inner chambers to speak with him. When reading this one ponders,...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayikra
We know that the first word in parshas Vayikra has a small aleph. Chazal note that the reason was due to the humility of...
Vertluch: Parshas Ki Savo
In this week's parsha, the Torah discusses the mitzvah of bikkurim, the bringing of the first-ripened fruits to the Beis Hamikdash. The essence of...
Vertluch: Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech
Prior to entering Eretz Cana’an, Moshe Rabbeinu warns the Bnei Yisroel about the challenges ahead. The pasuk recounts that when they left Mitzrayim ‘you...
Vertlach: Parshas Naso
This weeks דבר תורה is לזכות רפואה שלימה ל-אברהם בייניש בן גאלדה שפרינצה.
ולאה בת חנה
And לזכר נשמת ר' אברהם בן שמחה זצ"ל
ר' חיים בן...
Vertlach: Parshas Toldos
The pasuk (25: 27) says, “The lads grew up and Esav became a man who knows trapping, a man of the field; but Yaakov...
Vertluch: Parshas Mishpotim
The bnei Yisroel had just experienced the amazing and awe inspiring Matan Torah at Har Sinai. Immediately following that is parshas Mishpatim, in which...
Vertluch: Parshas Tazria
There’s a well known medrash that states the following story: There was once a peddler who arrived into a busy marketplace. He incited a...
Vertluch: Parshas Shelach
In the last portion of parshas Shelach the Torah discusses the parsha of tzitzis. The pasuk says (15; 39) ‘This shall be fringes for...
Vertluch: Parshas Mishpatim
Parshas Mishpatim begins with all the applicable laws that pertain to the owning of a Jewish slave. Isn’t it a little ironic that the...
Vertluch: Parshas Yisro
In this weeks parsha the Torah describes the most monumental and important event of our storied history; the experience of matan Torah. Klal Yisroel...
Vertluch: Parshas Vaera
As the weeks move forward, we proceed into the midst of all the parshiyos that describe the galus of Mitzrayim. Shevet Levi, as we...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei
In parshas Pekudei the Torah talks about the completion of the Mishkan and the priestly garments worn by the Kohanim. Towards the end of...
Vertlach: Parshas SHoftim
Theדבר תורה is לזכות רפואה שלימה ל-אברהם בייניש בן גאלדה שפרינצה.
ולאה בת חנה
And לזכר נשמת ר' אברהם בן שמחה זצ"ל
ר' חיים בן ר' צבי...
Vertluch: Parshas Bereishis
There are many lessons that one can learn from the first week of creation. One of them, which I felt was powerful, was when...
Vertluch: Parshas Behar
In this week’s parsha, the Torah speaks about the sin of ona’ah. The first pasuk (25; 14) speaks about not victimizing another person, while...
Vertlach: Shavuos
This weeks דבר תורה is לזכות רפואה שלימה ל-אברהם בייניש בן גאלדה שפרינצה.
ולאה בת חנה
And לזכר נשמת ר' אברהם בן שמחה זצ"ל
ר' חיים בן...
Vertluch: Parshas Noach
This weeks parsha begins with the well-known words of נֹחַ אִישׁ צַדִּיק תָּמִים הָיָה בְּדֹרֹתָיו, meaning Noach was righteous, and a tamim; he was...
Vertluch: Parshas Pekudei
The Torah, in this week’s parsha, talks about the completion of the Mishkan and the priestly garments worn by the Kohanim; towards the end...
Vertluch: Parshas Lech L’cha
When our souls agree to descend into this world to be born, we embark on a lifelong journey. We are entrusted with a mission,...
Vertluch: Parshas Vayelech/Yom Kippur 5773
There is an interesting halacha that is brought in Shulchan Aruch (orach chaim 203; 1) which states, that during aseres yemei teshuva a person...
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...
Vertlach: Parshas Ki Savo
Theדבר תורה is לזכות רפואה שלימה ל-אברהם בייניש בן גאלדה שפרינצה.
ולאה בת חנה
And לזכר נשמת ר' אברהם בן שמחה זצ"ל
ר' חיים בן ר' צבי...
Vertluch: Ki Seitzei
This weeks parsha begins by stating, ‘If you go out to war against your enemies, and Hashem, your God, will deliver him into your...
Vertluch: Parshas Terumah
This week’s parsha discusses the building of the mishkan. The Ramban raises an interesting question. Sefer Bereishis is called sefer Hayetzira (the book of...
Vertluch: Purim 5772
The gemarain Megillah (2a) discusses the scenarios of how the Megillah can beread on different days of the month, depending on where a person...
Vertluch: Parshas Shoftim
‘You should prepare a way and divide your surroundings into three portions…and it should be for a person who kills accidentally to run there’....
Vertluch: Parshas Achrei-Mos/Kedoshim
‘You shall observe my Shabbos and revere my Sanctuary. I am Hashem.’ (19; 30)
The juxtaposition of keeping Shabbos and fearing the Bais Hamikdash seem...