By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: We can surely say Tisha b’Av is the saddest day of the year. It is the day that both the first and second Beit Hamikdash (temple) were destroyed. We need to understand that the temple was not just a building where B’nei Israel brought sacrifices, but […]
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By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: The Medrash on this week’s Parsha asks: Hashem had commanded Moshe to go fight with Midian, how come Moshe sent others to fight but didn’t go himself? The Medrash answers since Moshe grew up in Midian, he had to show הכרת הטוב, appreciation. The answer is […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: In Bilaam’s dialogue with Hashem, he related that Balak, king of Moav, had petitioned him to curse the Jewish people. The word Bilaam used for curse is kavah, imprecate, which is a stronger, more emphatic, tone of curse. Rashi observes that kavah is stronger than arah, […]
By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: In this week’s Parsha, the passuk says “This is the Torah, a man who dies in a tent.” The Gemara in Brachot quotes Rish Lakish who expounds this passuk to mean the words of Torah are not retained except by one who “kills” himself over the […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, in this week’s parasha, we encounter yet again the complex episode of the spies. They returned from the mission to spy on the land of Yisrael with complaints of the superiority of the enemy and how it would be impossible to conquer the land. What […]