After spending nearly an hour just typing up a vort only to be told my session had expired, i must now write quicker and more to the point in the hope it doesn’t ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
Why do we say Tehillim by the side of a dead body waiting to be buried? I pondered this as I was doing the mitzva of Shmira for a lady who had just ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
The honor of kvater is given to a married couple to hint at the fact that the bris milah is compared to marriage, through the milah the baby becomes betrothed to Hashem
Written by moishe
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. (tehillim 137:5) The Gemara in Baba Basra 60b tells us that after the Second Temple was destroyed, ..
Written by Anonymous
One of the reasons why the bris milah takes place on the eighth day is because there is an angel teaching the baby Torah in the womb, but just before the baby is born, ..
Written by shloime brit
I was once at a funeral and heard a beautiful explanation of the significance of the bracha: “May you have arichas yomim (length of days)” ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
One early source which seems to indicate the celebration of a shalom zachor is a comment of Rabbeinu Tam which can be found in Tosafos Bava Kamma 80a ‘lebei.’ ..
Written by d fine