Challah: The Odd One Out?
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
This week’s parashah should have been a party for all of those involved in the mitzvos tied to the Land of Israel. This is...
From The Chassidic Masters: Error Of The Spies
The Torah portion Sh’lach relates how the men sent to spy out Eretz Yisrael returned and reported that the country was unconquerable. The Jewish people, they said, would be...
Where I Stand: Beha’alosecha: Pain Or Privilege?
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
OK, I admit it. I’m not sure how I would have behaved if I were in the position of the Jews back in the Wilderness. We...
More Than Skin-Deep: The Deeper Meaning Of Tzara’as
By Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz
There is the well-known homiletical observation that the three letters for the word nega (a wound or an affliction) — nun, gimmel, ayin — can...
Lashon Ha’ra And The Two Types Of Healing
By Rabbi Tuvia Teldon
It is well-known that medicine can treat the symptom or the source of the problem. Treating the symptom will hopefully alleviate the problem, but it may...
Haftorahman Explains Machar Chodesh
By Reuben Ebrahimoff - The Haftorahman
This week's Haftorah is read when Rosh Chodesh falls out on Sunday Night. It is called Machar Chodesh, or tomorrow is the new month.
The...
Sivan Rahav-Meir: Orthodox With a Hashtag
By: TOBY KLEIN GREENWALD
The trendiest place to be every Wednesday night in Jerusalem is not a 1960s Anglo bar or a rock concert, but the packed hall of Hechal...
From Where I Stand
Tzav: The Only One
BY RABBI YOSSY GOLDMAN
A satisfying aroma to G-d” — Vayikra (6:14)
Without going into the whole question of sacrifices, one difficult phrase that appears in this week’s...
Vayikra: Bulls and Lambs
BY RABBI YOSSY GOLDMAN
When a man will bring an offering from among you . . . Vayikra 1:2
Not only animal rights groups have difficulty with this week’s parashah.
Many, if...
From Where I Stand
Bar Mitzvahs and Parshas Vayakhel
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
“See G-d has appointed Betzalel, the son of Uri, the son of Chur of the tribe of Judah.” —Sh’mos 35:30.
Chur, Betzalel’s grandfather,...