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A Weekly Byte...From Isralight (Devarim 5766)
Summary: , many commentaries understand it to mean that G-d was not just speaking to Moshe, he was speaking to Moshe in order that Moshe pass on the message to the rest of the Jewish people. Rashi, noting this question seems to attempt a response, suggesting that the word leimor here is Moshe? Rav Moshe Feinstein, in his Darash Moshe , suggests a different way of looking at this question: Pehaps it was not that Moshe could not shoulder this burden, but rather that it was important that one man should... 77.42%
Sfas Emes - Parshas Matos/Masei
Summary: Sfas Emes - Parshas Matos/Masei "Nosson Chayim Leff" The Parsha begins with Moshe Rabbeinu in a meeting with the leaders of the Shevatim. The Sifrei tells us that when Moshe transmitted the words of HaShem, he sometimes introduced those words with "Koh Ahmar HaShem". Now the Sfas Emes asks a basic question: If the greater degree of clarity that "Zeh" implies is a virtue, why were some of Moshe's communications from HaShem to Bnei Yisroel preceded by "Koh"? 77.42%
HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Pinchas
Summary: Nevertheless, the law that "A zealot may strike him down" applies only when the zealot feels the collective pain of the Jewish People, not when he has concluded rationally that the Jewish People may be harmed by the sinner's act. Moshe's request, addressed to G-d as "Elokei Ha'ruchot," can thus be understood as follows: "Appoint a man over the assembly who will be viewed by Bnei Yisrael as an angel." The answer is that Mordechai was, in his generation, like Moshe was in his generation, i.e.,... 77.42%
HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Chukat-Balak
Summary: HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Chukat-Balak "Shlomo Katz" The Gemara (Bava Batra 14b) teaches: "Moshe wrote his book - i.e., the Torah - and the parashah of Bilam." (Matzmiach Yeshuah p.15) ******** R' Aharon Bakst z"l hy"d ("Reb Archik") Reb Archik was born in 1869 in a suburb of Vilna. This teacher held Reb Archik in equally high esteem, saying that Reb Archik was the most suited of his students to carry the mussar movement to another generation. 77.42%
HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Shelach
Summary: HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Shelach "Shlomo Katz" Most of this week's parashah relates the story of the Spies that Bnei Yisrael sent to examine Eretz Yisrael and the tragic aftermath of that excursion. Terumah and Ma'aser are indicative of the intrinsic holiness of Eretz Yisrael and of the blessing attributable to the Land itself. The Spies were the latter type of leaders - they had the skills to lead Bnei Yisrael through the desert, but not to prepare them for ... 77.42%
Weekly Halacha - Parshas Behaloscha
Summary: (9) QUESTION: May leftover pieces of food be given to animals or birds to eat? (24) But if, inadvertently, food or drink was stored under a bed and someone slept on the bed, many poskim hold that the food does not become forbidden to eat. (27) If mayim acharonim splashed over a food item, the food may be eaten. 77.42%
HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Nasso
Summary: R' Avraham Saba z"l (Spain; 1440-1508) explains that Gershon was the oldest son of Levi, and his descendants had a claim to be counted before the descendants of Gershon's younger brother Kehat. R' Saba explains that the Torah honors Kehat for his Torah knowledge, just as we read in Divrei Hayamim I (4:9), "And Yaavetz was honored more than his brothers." ******** R' Yitzchak ben R' Shmuel z"l ("Ri Ha'zaken") R' Yitzchak was born in Ramerupt, France in approximately 1120. 77.42%
Weekly Halacha - Shavuos
Summary: On the Yom Tov of Shavuos, however, there is a good reason for women to light candles on Yom Tov itself and not before sunset. If a woman forgot that it is also Shabbos and lit candles for Yom Tov only, she must light another candle and recite the blessing over Shabbos and Yom Tov. DISCUSSION: The following types of food preparation are permitted on Yom Tov - provided that the food will be used on that same Yom Tov day [or, if Yom Tov falls on Friday and an eiruv tavshilin was made, for ... 77.42%
Ramchal - The Great Redemption - The Visitation: Ch. 5
Summary: 5 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman It's important to realize that only the *inner* aspect of things will begin to heal in the course of The Visitation -- not the everyday and tangible parts of things. For as Ramchal put it, "there are inner and outer aspects" of the Supernal Luminaries under discussion, which are "termed their 'body' and 'soul'". Ramchal informs us that they'll be set free in the course of The Visitation "with the help of the upsurge of light that will shine upon ... 77.42%
Morsels of Hebrew Grammar by Dr. Meshullam Klarberg - Parshas Bamidbar
Summary: When there is a one-syllable word, or a two-syllable word that is mil'eeil, the accent is in effect at the beginning of the word. The 18th century grammarian R' Chaim Kesslin sets out the above rule in sefer maslol (Netiv 12) and then lists the following exceptions: 1) In the case of a phrase with three words, where the second word has two syllables - so that if pushed back the accented syllable will come to be next to the accented syllable of the first word in the phrase (because that word ... 77.42%
Perceptions - Parshas Behar-Bechukosai - Da'as in the Wind
Summary: Recently, I departed from this strategy and made a comment about a certain secular political leader considered to be a spiritual threat by the Torah world. As a result, religious parties, in an effort to fend off or at least slow down the assault on the Torah world, have been forced to shore up the secular government in return for promises of constraint against Torah institutions. For, to help a Jew rediscover his or her roots and return to Torah in a "healthy" manner, it takes a lot of ... 77.42%
Sfas Emes - Lag Ba'Omer
Summary: Sfas Emes - Lag Ba'Omer "Nosson Chayim Leff" The Pri Tzadik on Lag Ba'Omer Lag Ba'Omer will soon be with us. And R' Akiva, in turn, was the quintessence of Torah she'be'al peh (the Torah that HaShem taught Moshe Rabeinu at Sinai orally. Good, so we know that R' Shimon bar Yochai, R' Akiva's prime talmid, was niftar on Lag Ba'Omer.We also know that Lag BaOmer is the day when we commemorate the petirah of R' Akiva. 77.42%
Sfas Emes - Parshas Tazria-Metzora
Summary: Sfas Emes - Parshas Tazria-Metzora "Nosson Chayim Leff" Sfas Emes, Zechuso Tagein Aleinu, Tazria and HaChodesh 5631 In 5631 ( 1871 )-- the Sfas Emes's first year as Gerrer Rebbe-- Shabbos Parashas Tazria coincided with Rosh Chodesh Iyar. Later in this ma'amar, the Sfas Emes reads 'Ha'chodesh ha'zeh la'chem' in another way. Thus, the Sfas Emes reads 'Ha'chodesh ha'zeh la'chem ' as giving Klal Yisroel a mission. 77.42%
A Weekly Byte...From Isralight (Pesach 5766)
Summary: The Exodus from Egypt assures us that if the Jewish people could get out of Egypt, then we could get out of any situation. The Torah refers to the Jewish people, so to speak, as the firstborn child of G-d. Why is our calendar (and which month we begin that calendar with) so important as to merit being the very first mitzvah the Jewish people are ever given as a people? 77.42%
Integrity - Eternal Truth
Summary: Integrity - Eternal Truth "Rabbi Daniel Travis" God saw that the light was tov. 4 Rashi explains that because the hirdoff plant is poisonous, it represents neither peace nor truth. The Torah itself has associated truth with perpetuation; thus it is clear that a poisonous plant cannot be part of anything that is identified with truth. 77.42%
Dvar Torah - Erev Pesach - To Express a Higher Yes!
Summary: Dvar Torah - Erev Pesach - To Express a Higher Yes! Project Genesis Erev Pesach 5766 Rabbi Label Lam To Express a Higher Yes! Rather we are compelled through the Mitzvah to eat Matzah to engage in the more refined art of pursuing freedom ? 77.42%
Perceptions - Parshas Vayikra - A Kingdom of Priests
Summary: However, if a person has already fulfilled some mitzvos then it is enough that he reincarnates to fulfill only those mitzvos which he lacks and never fulfilled. For, life is about keeping the body and soul tightly united, so that the soul can elevate the body and bring to it eternal life, symbolized by the idea of Kesones Ohr, "Clothing of Light." Sinning pains their soul, but not their body, for their pain numbs the soul and distances the body from the soul. 77.42%
Ask! - End of Days
Summary: Many sources portend that in the End of Days, most Jews will despise the Torah, the mitzvot, and those Jews who observe them. This certainly applies to the explicit teachings of the Torah, but even events described in the Torah are also instructions. Jewish children will cease to learn Torah in favor of secular studies and wealthy Jews will cease to support Torah in favor of secular philanthropies. 77.42%
Perceptions - Parshas Tetzaveh - Shedding Our Skin
Summary: Perceptions - Parshas Tetzaveh - Shedding Our Skin "Rabbi Pinchas Winston" BS"D TETZAVEH/Zachor Shedding Our Skin FRIDAY NIGHT: Command the Children of Israel to bring clear olive oil, beaten for the light, so the Menorah can burn continuously. But Kabbalah does know: middah k'neged middah: for having caused the change of man's skin from Kesones Ohr (Aleph-Vav-Raish) to Kesones Ohr (Ayin-Vav-Raish), he was punished with a skin that must constantly and painfully be changed... 77.42%
Integrity - Above the Eye
Summary: Integrity - Above the Eye "Rabbi Daniel Travis" Above the Eye Yosef is a fruitful branch; a fruitful branch alei ayin ? The power of the eye is so awesome that once when Rav was in a cemetery he made the extraordinary statement that ninety-nine percent of its inhabitants were there as a result of ayin hara. I am a descendant of Yosef, against whom the ayin hara can wield no power.? Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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