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 […]
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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 […]
By Rabbi Shemuel Akhamzadeh צָר֖וֹר ×Ö¶×ªÖ¾×”Ö·×žÖ´Ö¼×“Ö°×™Ö¸× Ö´Ö‘×™× ×•Ö°×”Ö´×›Ö´Ö¼×™×ªÖ¶Ö–× ×וֹתָֽ×׃ “Assail the Midianites and defeat them—25:17 × Ö°×§Ö¹Ö—× × Ö´×§Ö°×žÖ·×ªÖ™ ×‘Ö°Ö¼× ÖµÖ£×™ יִשְׂרָ×ֵ֔ל מֵ×ֵ֖ת ×”Ö·×žÖ´Ö¼×“Ö°×™Ö¸× Ö´Ö‘×™× ×ַחַ֖ר תֵּ×ָסֵ֥ף ×ֶל־עַמֶּֽיךָ׃ “Avenge the Israelite people on the Midianites; …31:2 I recently heard Harav Yaakov Hillel explain the purpose of these two separate commandments in regards to dealing with […]
By Rabbi David Cohen And the name of the slain woman was Kasbi bas Tzur, he was head of peoples/ (25:15) Later on, in (31:18), we read that Midyan had five kings. Tzur was the most prominent of them all, as he is referred to here as rosh umot, head […]