By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: Rosh Hashana is the Day of Judgment. Anything that happened this past year with our health, parnasa, job, and the pandemic was written on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur. And anything which will happen next year will be written and signed on these High […]
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By Rabbi Moshe Vosoghi: In this week’s Parsha, we find the Mitzva of Bikkurim. The Torah commands that we bring the first ripened fruits from the seven species to the Bet Hamikdash. Once there, the farmer would read a special passage which also happens to be the main text of […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: And so shall you do for any lost article of your brother that may become lost from him and you find it; you shall not hide yourself. (22:3) Horav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, zl, writes that he once received a letter from a law professor at the […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: This week’s portion starts with, “You shall appoint judges and officers in your cities that HaShem will give you and they should judge the people with righteous judgment.” The rabbis learn this mitzva is not just for a court to judge righteously; it is a mitzva […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shalom, in parashat Eikev, we continue from the previous parasha, where HaShem promised us reward and punishment for those who go or do not go in the ways of HaShem. One of the pesukim in our parasha says: (7:13) “ואהבך וברכך והרבך וברך פרי בטנך…” Meaning, […]