Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi David Cohen And Moshe assembled the entire assembly of Bnei Yisrael. (35:1) Rashi tells us that the word Vayakhel, “and Moshe assembled”, is written in the hifil, causative, to teach us that Moshe Rabbeinu did not gather the people directly. Rather, he caused them to gather […]
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Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Aharon Seleh The Gemara in ×‘×‘× ×‘×ª×¨× brings a story: רב ×¤×¤× was walking up a ladder and slipped and almost fell to his death. He was frightened; had he died, he would have had the same death as idol worshippers. ×—×™×™ בר רב told him, […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov This Shabbat – the Shabat before Purim – we will take two sifrei Torah out, one for the weekly Torah portion of Tesaveh and the other for reading the Zakor. It is a positive mitsva to listen to this reading from a kosher sefer […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, In the year 1923 there was a great gathering of many leaders and Rabbanim of Europe in the month of Elul. Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Rosh HaYeshiva of Keneset Yisrael in Slobodka gave a fiery speech and many parts of this speech […]
Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shemuel Akhamzadeh ×ַחֲרֵ֥י ×¨Ö·×‘Ö¼Ö´Ö–×™× ×œÖ°×”Ö·×˜Ö¼Ö¹Ö½×ª×ƒ (Shemot 23:2) Majority rule, or in halachic terms Halacha Krabim, is one of the basic principles of halacha. However, this law is not to be used at will and as Chatam Sofer explains, only when there is a lack of certainty […]