Dear Parents,
After Matan Torah, Hashem asked Moshe to re-ascend the mountain. The wording, “Ascend to Me, to the mountain, and be there” seems superfluous. Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir asked, “Why was it necessary to say, 'and be there’?" Of course, if Moshe were to ascend, he would be there!
A person is wherever...
Dear Parents,
Isn't it peculiar that the parshah of Kabbolas HaTorah is called Yisro, the name of Moshe’s father-in-law? The emphasis is to show us that there is a deep connection between the middos of Yisro and the essence of Kabbolas HaTorah.
The first phrase used in the Torah to describe...
Dear Parents,
The Torah describes Bnei Yisroel’s crossing of the Red Sea twice: Once, before the Egyptians were drowning (“Bnei Yisroel came within the sea on dry land and the water was a wall for them …”). And later, when the Egyptians were no longer a threat (the Torah reiterates that the people “went on dry land in the midst...
Dear Parents,
I would like to share an insight on this week’s parshah from Rav Asher Zelig Rubenstein z”l, whose yahrzeit was last week. Rav Asher was the mashgiach at Yeshivas Itri in Yerushalayim and a chavrusa of mine there. He was the rosh yeshivah of Toras Simchah in Yerushalayim at the time of...
