Category: Sefer Devorim

Parsha Inspiration – Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech: The Secret to Attaining Good Judgment

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha, Moshe addresses the Jewish people as a whole. From the great leaders to the simple woodcutters, and water carriers, all the different types of Jews were gathered together. The pasuk begins, Atem Nitzavim Hayom Kulchem… you are all standing here today. There is a question here: What does today represent? What day…

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Inspiration on Parshas Ki Savo – Being Grateful and Judaism

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha, we are told about the immense blessing that the Jewish people will accrue upon following Hashem’s law. The Pasuk says, U’Vau Aecha kol ha’Berachos ha’Eleh v’Hisigucha, and all these blessings will come upon you and reach you. There is a question here: Seemingly the word V’Hisigucha – “and will reach you” is…

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Inspiration on Parshas Ki Seitzei: True Greatness!

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha we learn about a very important mitzvah – the law of burial in the earth. The pasuk says that you should bury a person because an unburied corpse is a curse to Hashem. There is a question here. This pasuk that teaches us the very important precept of Judaism, the mitzvah of burial,…

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Parsha Inspiration: Parshas Shoftim – The Power of Postivity

September 2, 2024September 2, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha, the Jewish people go out to battle. The Torah says that if one solitary soldier feels fear or anxiety, he must be sent home. Why? Because we are afraid that he will lower the morale of his fellow soldiers. We are afraid that his misgivings and apprehensions will spread to the…

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Inspiration on Parshas Re’eh: Reach Your Potential!

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 parsha

You Can Reach Your Potential – Just like Moshe! In this week’s Parsha, Moshe says, Re’eh anochi nosen lifneichem hayom bracha u’klala – see, I have placed before you today two potential paths to take in life. The Medrash says that re’eh anochi literally means see me. Moshe was adjuring the people to be like him. He was telling them Re’eh…

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Parsha Knowledge Parshas Eikev Inspiration: Keep on Fighting!

August 18, 2024August 18, 2024 parsha

This week’s Parsha begins, “V’haya eikev tishmo’un – If you will listen to Hashem with your heel.” This sounds very strange. It’s possible to be attentive and to listen with one’s ears but how can someone listen with his heel? What precisely does this mean? This is also the only Parsha that is named for a part…

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Parshas Vaeschanan: Health at Sinai

August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha the Torah commands us, V’nishmartem Meod Linfashosichem Ki Lo Reisem Kol Temunah… – we must take care of and safeguard our health because when Hashem came down to Sinai he didn’t come down in a form or image. The Torah is charging us to be strong and healthy when serving Hashem….

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Parshas Devarim: Stars that Light Up the World

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 parsha

In this week’s Parsha, Hashem compares the Jewish people to the stars in the heavens. I heard an incredible idea from my father Rav Yitzchok Fingerer shlita: Rav Chaim of Sanz says that if you look at the stars, they seem tiny. To us, from afar, stars look small. The reason why they look so small…

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Parshas Ha’azinu: The Man Who Was Saved from Death

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 parsha

In this week’s Parsha, Parshas Ha’azinu, the pasuk tells us that the words of the Torah are compared to rain. Why is this so? What is the connection between Torah and rain? I would like to share with you a beautiful answer that I saw in sefer Aleinu Leshabi’ach by Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein shlita: Rav…

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Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech: Finding Light in the Darkness

September 5, 2023September 5, 2023 debs2830

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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