Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov This Shabbat – the Shabat before Purim – we will take two sifrei Torah out, one for the weekly Torah portion of Tesaveh and the other for reading the Zakor. It is a positive mitsva to listen to this reading from a kosher sefer […]
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Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, In the year 1923 there was a great gathering of many leaders and Rabbanim of Europe in the month of Elul. Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Rosh HaYeshiva of Keneset Yisrael in Slobodka gave a fiery speech and many parts of this speech […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shemuel Akhamzadeh ×ַחֲרֵ֥י ×¨Ö·×‘Ö¼Ö´Ö–×™× ×œÖ°×”Ö·×˜Ö¼Ö¹Ö½×ª×ƒ (Shemot 23:2) Majority rule, or in halachic terms Halacha Krabim, is one of the basic principles of halacha. However, this law is not to be used at will and as Chatam Sofer explains, only when there is a lack of certainty […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Aharon Seleh The Medrash brings a possuk “מפי ×¢×•×œ×œ×™× ×•×™×•× ×§×™× ×™×¡×“×ª עוז” and expounds upon it- הקב”×” asked Bnei Yisrael, “Who will be a guarantor that you will keep my Torah?†הקב”×” didn’t accept ××‘×¨×”× ×™×¦×—×§ and ויעקב as our guarantees. Only when we said our […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi David Shasho ×•Ö·×™Ö·Ö¼Ö¨×¨Ö°× ×™Ö´×©Ö°×‚×¨Ö¸×ֵ֜ל ×ֶת־הַיָּ֣ד הַגְּדֹלָ֗ה ×ֲשֶ×֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה ×™×™ ×‘Ö°Ö¼×žÖ´×¦Ö°×¨Ö·Ö”×™Ö´× ×•Ö·×™Ö´Ö¼Ö½×™×¨Ö°×֥וּ ×”Ö¸×¢Ö¸Ö–× ×ֶת־יי וַיַּֽ×Ö²×žÖ´Ö™×™× ×•Ö¼Ö™ ביי וּבְמֹשֶ×Ö–×” עַבְדּֽוֹ׃ (פ “And when Israel saw the wondrous power which G-d had wielded against the Egyptians, the people feared G-d; they had faith in G-d and His servant Moses.†The […]