“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
The Torah tells us about the negative response of the 10 spies to Calev’s positive report about going into the Promised Land: “And the men (the 10 spies) ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
Parshas Sh’lach Lecha; Different Defence Tactics : The main thrust of our sedra is the sin of the spies – their erring report of both the Land of Israel ..
Written by d fine
One of the things the ten spies report back is that in comparison to the giants of eretz yisrael ‘we were like grasshoppers in our eyes and so we were in their ..
Written by d fine