By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: On Sukkot, there was a special mitzvah of drawing water and pouring it on the mizbe’ach. This was accompanied with an intense Simcha. So much so, that the Gemara says if one never experienced it, one never saw real Simcha in their life. Harav Yitzhak Yosef […]
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By Rabbi David Shasho: The Chofetz Chaim in his work on the Chumash shares with us a novel approach to suffering. He bases his words on the following passage in this week’s parashah. The deeds of the Mighty One are perfect, for all His ways are just (Devarim 32:4). This […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shana Tova to all. At the end of our parasha HaShem shows Moshe Rabenu a very bleak picture of what we know as הסתר ×סתיר, meaning a time when we have moved away from being connected to HaShem very much and he, in turn, so to […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: ​​Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment. Anything that happened this past year with our health, parnasa, job, and the pandemic was written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur. And anything which will happen next year will be written and signed on these High […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: And you shall only be above, and you shall not be below. (28:13) Simply, this means that we will be on “top,” revered, looked up to, sought after. Horav Ezriel Hildeseimer, z”l, explains that this blessing emphasizes the Jew’s gravitational pull toward spirituality and holiness. We […]