Hear Israel, today you cross the Jordan… (9:1) שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל אַתָּה עֹבֵר הַיּוֹם אֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן… In this ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
QUANTUM AND NEWTONIAN PHYSICS AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO GOOD AND EVIL The physical world is the mirror of the spiritual world. Most of what I say is based on the writing ..
Written by Adrian Ciffer
About the mitzvah of mezuzah, which is found in this week’s Torah portion, Eikev, the Talmud relates that Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi once sent a mezuzah as a gift ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
The opening of the sedra (and indeed it’s name) brings a rare word to the fore; ekev, as in the pasuk ‘If you shall listen to these commandments…” ..
Written by D FIne
“Then you shall remember Hashem, your G-d; that it was He Who gave you strength to be successful.” (8:18) R’ Yosef Chaim of Baghdad z”l, ..
Written by Benjie Fine
You’ll notice that throughtout sefer devarim, Moshe repeats the history of the last 40 years and much more to the Bnei Yisrael. The question is why exactly ..
Written by d fine
1) If one can learn, then teach The Chofetz Chaim notes that in the pasuk (11:19) of Shema velimadetem osam es beneichem ledaber bam (‘you shall teach them to your ..
Written by d fine
Parashas Eikev – Reward and Reward This week’s sedra begins with Moshe continuing to encourage the nation to stay holy when they enter Eretz Yisrael. Having ..
Written by Daniel Sandground
There’s a bit of a discrepancy in one of our psukim this week. 11;12 says that the Land of Israel is “a land which HaShem your G-D seeks always, always ..
Written by D FIne