By Rabbi Moshe Vosoghi: In this week’s Parsha, we find the Mitzva of Bikkurim. The Torah commands that we bring the first ripened fruits from the seven species to the Bet Hamikdash. Once there, the farmer would read a special passage which also happens to be the main text of […]
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By Rabbi David Cohen: And so shall you do for any lost article of your brother that may become lost from him and you find it; you shall not hide yourself. (22:3) Horav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, zl, writes that he once received a letter from a law professor at the […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: This week’s portion starts with, “You shall appoint judges and officers in your cities that HaShem will give you and they should judge the people with righteous judgment.” The rabbis learn this mitzva is not just for a court to judge righteously; it is a mitzva […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shalom, in parashat Eikev, we continue from the previous parasha, where HaShem promised us reward and punishment for those who go or do not go in the ways of HaShem. One of the pesukim in our parasha says: (7:13) “ואהבך וברכך והרבך וברך פרי בטנך…” Meaning, […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: The Midrash (Rabbah 87:10) relates the following dialogue between Moshe and Hashem. Hashem said to Moshe, “You are grabbing the rope from both ends. (In other words, you cannot go forward, since you are pulling from both sides.) If you want to fulfill, ‘Let me now […]