Torah Corner

Lo sa’ason kein l’Hashem Elokeichem (12:4) After instructing the Jewish people to break and smash the idolatrous temples and pillars which they will find in...

Klal-Yisroel stands at Har-Sinai waiting to accept the Torah Hakedosha. “Awesome” and “spectacular” are inconsequential words to describe the truly momentous Kabbolas-HaTorah. Any description...

“Bnei Yisroel did according to the word of Moshe; they requested from the Egyptians silver vessels, gold vessels and garments.” (12; 35).   The aforementioned pasuk...

Cutting Nails One is permitted to cut nails during the three weeks.78 A mohel is permitted to cut his nail in order to perform a...

V'asisa bigdei Kodesh l'Aharon achicha l'kavod ul'tifares (28:2) Rav Yitzchok Hutner once related that while studying in the Slabodka yeshiva in Europe, he often heard...

The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Rosh Hashana. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely...

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...

This is the latest segment of the new weekly video series from Rabbi Stulberger – You’ve Been Called to the Dean’s Office. It’s a...

Written By Rabbi Moishe Lebovits KOF-K Kosher Supervision Much has been discussed over the years regarding Thanksgiving dinner. We will discuss whether such a party is...

We find in this week’s parsha, Hashem tells Bilam not to go with the emissaries of Balak. As the pasuk says Hashem tells Bilam,...

The Shmuz on the Parsha R’ Ben Tzion Shafier Where are the Gadolim today? Parshas Pikudei       (Shemos 38:21) These are the reckonings of the Mishkan, the...

Avodas Perach The Importance of Purpose The Egyptians started to make the Israelites do labor designated to break their bodies (Shemos 113). In order to keep...

This week's Haftorah is from Amos. The reason it was chosen to be the Haftorah of Parshas Vayeshev is simple: the Navi transmits Hashem’s...

V’amarta lifnei Hashem Elokecha biarti hakodesh min ha’bayis v’gam n’sativ l’levi ul’ger l’yasom ul’almana k’chol mitzvas’cha asher tzivisani lo avarti mi’mitzvosecha v’lo shachachti (26:13)            ...

PREPARING FOR SHAVUOS Shavuos is called Z’man Matan Toraseinu.  Originally, this event occurred in the Hebrew year 2448 (3324 years ago). As we know, Rav...

Ba'chodesh ha'shevi'i b'echad la'chodesh yih'yeh lachem Shabbason Zichron Teruah Mikra Kodesh (23:24) The Gemora in Rosh Hashana (29b) points out that in Parshas Pinchas (Bamidbar...

Vayeitz'u kol adas B’nei Yisroel mi'lifnei Moshe (35:20) Parshas Vayakhel begins by relating that Moshe gathered together all of the Jews to instruct them about...

Vayeitzei Yaakov miBe’er Shava vayeilech Charana (28:10) Those who pay careful attention to the parsha while reviewing it or during its public reading on Shabbos...

In this weeks parsha we read about the sin of the Egel, a nadir in our illustrious and rich history Chazal tell us that...

This week's Sedra opens with particular instructions to the Kohanim. In the first of these, the Torah tells the Kohanim not to become Tamei...

This past week a terrible tragedy occurred in Scotland regarding a medical doctor. It seems a doctor who was moonlighting did not inform his...

Abram took Sarai his wife and his nephew Lot, and all their wealth that they had amassed, and the people they had acquired in...

In this weeks parshiyos the Torah discusses how Hashem commanded Moshe to build the Mishkan, and how He appointed Betzalel to spearhead the entire...

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...

Rambam in hilchos teshuva, (perek aleph) asks how one says viduy (where one accepts and confesses they have sinned). He answers, we say ‘Ana...

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...

Playing Ball Then Going To Daven One is supposed to prepare himself properly before one davens to Hashem. Therefore, after one has finished playing ball...

Torah and Nature Paths to Ahavas Hashem The Nile will swarm with frogs, and when they emerge, they will be in your palace, in your...

V'achalta v'savata u'veirachta es Hashem Elokecha al ha'aretz ha'tovah asher nasan lach (8:10) Parshas Eikev contains the mitzvah of reciting Birkas HaMazon (Grace after Meals),...

In this weeks parsha Yosef is taken out of jail and brought in front of Pharaoh to interpret his dreams. Yosef interprets them and...

As Yaakov was traveling and returning to his parent’s home, the pasuk tells us that he reached a river. The pasuk (32; 23-24) tells...

This week's Sedra begins on the third day of Avrohom Avinu's recovery from Bris Mila. The Torah tells us that Avrohom Avinu was sitting...

This week's Haftorah is from Yechezkel. It discusses all sorts of things to do with Kohanim. It seems clear that the reason this Haftorah...