Appoint for yourself men, and they will spy on the Land of Canaan (13:2) Chezky was a good learner in Yeshiva; he kept the mitzvos stringently and had been offered ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
Shelach: Feelings are real, but they aren’t reality “Feelings are real, but they aren’t reality”, I found this quote recently and I think its profound. In Shelach ..
Written by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs
וּמָה הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר הוּא יֹשֵׁב בָּהּ הֲטוֹבָה הִוא אִם רָעָה . . .And how is the Land in which they dwell; ..
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Before the Meraglim left on their mission to Eretz Yisroel, Moshe changed Yehoshua’s name and davened for him to be saved from the Meraglim. Kalev on the other ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
“And Moshe called Hoshea, the son of Nun, Yehoshua” (BeMidbar 13:16). The Gemara explains that by adding the Hebrew letter Yud to the beginning of Hoshea’s ..
Written by Howard Jackson
At the end of the Parsha we find the MiKoshes Eitzin being Michalel Shabbos and then immediately following this is the Parsha of Tzitzis. The Vilna Gaon offers an explanation ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
Every evening and morning, we say the Shema, Judaism’s supreme declaration of monotheistic faith. In the first passage, we accept upon ourselves the fact of G-d’s ..
Written by Benjamin Rose
The spies came back with the report that it was “A land that devours its inhabitants” We know that Hashem purposely made that these funerals happen so the people ..
Written by Marc Zemmel
There is a story that happened in a Jewish community. News began to circulate that the daughter of the butcher (shochet) had gone off the derech (way) and into very ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
Aparting from the episode of the spies – Hashem says to the bnei yisroel about the offerings that must be accompanied by gfts of meal-offerings and wine libations. ..
Written by Marc Zemmel