When you send away the mother-bird . . . when you build a new house and you make a fence around your roof . . . don’t sow a mixture in your vineyard . . . don’t ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
For the benefit of the Children of Israel “Moshe explained the Torah well” [1]. To explain the Torah “well” is interpreted that Moshe translated the Torah ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land. . . And you shall call out and say before Hashem, your God, ..
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Guard your Soul – Va’etchanah We have been commanded to “guard your soul” [1]. This is the positive commandment to look after our bodies. Our body of course ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
You shall set up judges and enforcement officers for yourself in all your gates . . . (Devarim 16:18) From the seemingly redundant inclusion of the words “for ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
“When you go to war against your enemies… if you will notice an attractive lady, you may take her captive to be your wife” [1]. The reason being that it is recognised ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
We have been instructed to “appoint judges for yourselves in all of your gates” [1] indicating that there should be a court in every city [2]. Why then does ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
I pleaded with Hashem (3:23) The Medrash tells us that when Moshe was told by Hashem that he would not be allowed to enter into Eretz Yisrael, he immersed himself ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick