June 13, 2024 | 7 Sivan, 5784 - Shavuos II | Torah Portion: Naso, Numbers 4:21-7:89 | Haftorah: Judges 13:2-25
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Giving is Receiving
This week we read the parsha of Naso. The parsha begins with the counting {Naso} of the Bnei Levi {the sons of Levi} and the assigning of the ...read more
Out Of Control
"...Any man whose wife goes astray..." (5:12)
From the juxtaposition of the section discussing the Priestly gifts to the laws of the Sotah, a ...read more
Birkas Cohanim – The Priestly Blessing
The Story
“We made it!” Yishai proclaimed with excitement.
“Yes” Daniel replied “It’s 5 o’clock in the morning and we managed to learn the ...read more
A Drink of Wine
What is the greatest blessing to which a person can aspire in this world? For Jewish people, at least, the answer seems to be peace. How do ...read more
Haftorah Commentary Naso
Shoftim 13:2
This week's haftorah shares with us an incredible perspective on sanctity and self control. The focus of the haftorah is the ...read more
Eternal Gifts
What a person gives away seems forever lost. The Torah, in cryptic fashion, uses proper nouns and pronouns in a mysterious medley that teaches ...read more
Birkas Kohanim: Peace of Togetherness Vs. Peace of Separate Pieces
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1295 -- ...read more
Bittersweet
IT SAYS IN Pirkei Avos:
The Tablets are the handiwork of God, and the writing was God’s writing charus—engraved—on the Tablets. Don’t read ...read more
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Chapter 8, Law 3 – The Three Souls of Man
Whenever the 'soul' is referenced in this discussion, it does not [refer to] the soul which requires a body, but the 'form of the soul' ("tzuras ...read more
Chapter 5, Mishna 19: True Love
Any love which is dependent on something, when the 'something' ceases, the love ceases. Any love which is not dependent on anything will never ...read more
Copying a Tape In Case It Gets Lost
QUESTION 59:
I own a set of Rabbi Reisman tapes. I wanted to have a friend listen to one of the tapes that I particularly liked. As an ...read more
Signs of Truth II
To Sarah he said, "I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Let it be a kesuth einayim for you and for all who are with you, for ...read more
Women and Children
Women are obligated in prayer, and therefore are also included in the prohibition not to eat before they have "prayed for their blood." However, ...read more
The Magic Touch Part II
I have never met a woman who says she does not want to be loved for who she is. Nonetheless, counterproductive to this desire, we tend to delude ...read more
Chapter 8, Law 2 – What is the Ultimate?
In the World to Come there will be no bodies and physical forms, but only the incorporeal souls of the righteous -- just like the angels of ...read more
Chapter 5, Mishna 18: The Gift of Selective Memory
There are four types of students (lit., among those who sit before the Sages) -- a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sifter. The sponge ...read more
Transitioning to Thanksgiving
Last class we reviewed the sixteenth blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai, the Shema Koleinu blessing and its emphasis on a request that HaShem hear ...read more
Chapter 8, Law 1(c) – The Coming of the End, Part III
The good which is reserved (lit., 'hidden') for the righteous is the life of the World to Come. This is the eternal life (lit., 'the life which ...read more