זֶה יִתְּנוּ כָּל הָעבֵר עַל הַפְּקֻדִים מַחֲצִית הַשֶּׁקֶל בְּשֶׁקֶל הַקּדֶשׁ This they should ..
Written by Rabbi Moishe Kormornick
Ki Sisa: The Middos Connection Eric Adams, the current Mayor of New York City, had a public scuffle with the press corps this week. The part that struck me was when ..
Written by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs
“Moshe stood at the gate of the camp and announced: ‘Whoever is on G-d’s side, come to me!’ And the whole tribe of Levi gathered to him.” ..
Written by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
The sin of the Golden Calf is one of the most difficult to comprehend episodes in the Torah. The commentaries discuss at length how the Jewish people could stumble ..
Written by Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen
“u’va’Yom ha’Shevi’i shovas vayinofash” (31:17). ‘G-d gives a person all extra Neshamah on Erev Shabbos, and then on Motza’ei Shabbos, He takes it away ..
Written by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Moshe was told to instruct the Children of Israel (literally) “only to keep Shabbos” [1]. The sages of blessed memory expound this verse in various manners [2], ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
After describing the construction of the Mishkan, the Torah mentions Shmiras Shabbos. Ach Es Shabsosai Tishmoru. But, keep my Shabbos. The message is that despite ..
Written by Rabbi Shmuel Gluck
Moshe was commanded to rewrite on a second set of tablets of stone the same as that which was written of the first set “that you broke” [1]. When Moshe saw the Children ..
Written by Rabbi Leeman
The Medrash Tanchuma says that as the Bnei Yisroel were making the Eigel, Hashem was engraving the Luchos. The next day Moshe broke the luchos because of the Eigel, ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
Half perfect (/are Jews that stingy that they can’t afford a whole shekel?!) As the start of our sedra tells us, the (male) members of Bnei Yisrael were to give ..
Written by d fine