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How to Deal with Pain and Suffering (with Rabbi YY Jacobson)
Parshas Pinchos: Hope in Dark Times
This week’s Parsha is very special because it contains some of the Yomim Tovim, the festivals. However, this week’s Parsha also coincides with a very sad time in Jewish history – the three weeks of mourning in which we mourn over the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. Why would the Parsha of the joyous festivals…
Iranian President’s Crash: An Open Miracle
Rabbi Daniel Glattstein Exclusive: How to Keep Your Children on the Derech
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Parshas Berishes: How Your Words Affect Generations
In this week’s Torah Portion (Berieshes 4:10) we are told of two brothers Kayin and Hevel – the first brothers of human history. Kayin and Hevel couldn’t get along, and one brother, Kayin kills his brother Hevel. The verse says the bloods of your brother are crying from the ground. The commentaries ask why the…
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Rosh Hashanah: Trumpets and the Shofar – The Kings Hunting Expedition
A certain city in the king’s empire had failed to pay its taxes to the royal treasury. Angry at the long overdue liability, the king came with a mighty army to collect the debt. When the king was ten miles from the city, the mayor and the city administrators came out to meet him. Since…
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Rosh Hashanah – Travel Free
Rosh Hashanah is known as the “head” or the “king” of the new Jewish year. It is therefore appropriate that on this day we declare Hamelech! – that Hashem is our King. Yet there is no command in the Torah that requires us to be oleh regal, (to ascend to Yerushalayim) for the holiday of Rosh Hashanah…
Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech: Finding Light in the Darkness
In Parshas Vayailech, we are told the last Mitzvah in the Torah which is to write a Torah scroll. The pasuk teaches us that Hashem commanded Moshe and Yehoshua to write the Torah and place the Torah scroll at the side of the Ark. The Torah remained there as a constant reminder of Klal Yisroel’s…
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Parshas Re’eh: How to be Removed but Close
In this week’s Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu warned Bnei Yisrael about the spiritual trap of idolatry (Devarim 13:5). He then spoke about the prohibitions concerning false prophets and the necessity to maintain loyalty to Hashem. When the Torah commands us to follow Hashem, the term אַחַרי Acharei is used. The word Acharei (after), implies distance. A…