By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari You must be wholehearted with HaShem. (Devarim 18,13). Shalom to all. Rabenu Alshech Hakadosh זצ״ל explains, there are people who keep Torah and Misvot in public, in the community and synagogues, or with family. However, when the person is alone with no one around and watching, […]
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By Rabbi David Cohen See! I present before you today a blessing and a curse. (11:26) Sforno interprets this pasuk to be a reference to the fate of Klal Yisrael’s being characterized by extremes. He writes: “Look and perceive that your affairs (as a nation) are not of an average […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov There is an interesting pasukh in this week’s portion, Eikev, which talks about all the kindness that Hashem has done to Benei Israel such as giving them Mann in the desert for 40 years. The Pasuk says that this was done in order to “Test you […]
By Rabbi Aharon Seleh The מדרש ×ª× ×—×•×ž×” brings down that משה ×¨×‘× ×• asked Hashem “The Jews committed many sins, yet you pardoned them. Now, please pardon my sin too!” Hashem gave him a few reasons why he wouldn’t pardon his sin. One of them was that he had delayed his […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, this Shabbat is called Shabbat Hazon because of the Haftara that we read from the book of Yesha’ya. The Midrash in Tehilim 137 says: עַ֥ל × Ö·×”Ö²×¨Ö¨×•Ö¹×ª ×€ בָּבֶ֗ל שָ×Ö£× ×™Ö¸Öשַ××‘Ö°× ×•Ö¼ ×’Ö·Ö¼×Ö¾×‘Ö¸Ö¼×›Ö´Ö‘×™× ×•Ö¼ בְּÖ×–Ö¸×›Ö°×¨ÖµÖ—× ×•Ö¼ ×ֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃ “By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down and we cried […]