In this week’s parsha, Parshas Balak, Balak, king of Moav, hires Bilaam, a prophet from the nations of the world, to curse the Jews, who seem to have spread over the eye of the land as they approach Eretz Yisrael. Despite Bilaam’s repeated attempts to curse...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Chukas, we learn of the death of righteous Miriam, the prophetess and leader of the women; we learn of the death of peaceful, loving Aharon ha’Kohen, high atop Hor Ha’Hor; and we learn of the predicted death of our leader,...
My mother gave me this recipe years ago, which a friend had passed along to her years before that. I have since shared the recipe with others, and the feedback is always great. This is a perfect side dish for an anytime meal: Shabbos, Yomtov, or...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Korach, under the direction and persuasion of Korach, a first cousin of Moshe and Aharon, the elite of the nation stage a rebellion against the leadership of Moshe and Aharon. “Is not the entire nation holy?!” Korach rhetorically asks and...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Shelach, we learn of the tragic sin of the scouts sent to tour the Land of Israel and bring back a report to the Israelites camped in the desert wilderness. What is the land like, Moshe instructed the scouts to...
At the end of this week’s parsha, Parshas Beha’alos’cha, the Torah tells us that Miriam and Aharon spoke about their brother Moshe, in regard to the wife he took (and that he subsequently separated from, by instruction from and command of G-d). For the lashon...
As we open the fourth book of Torah this Shabbos, Sefer Bamidbar and Parshas Bamidbar, we recall the vast and barren desert wilderness, Bamidbar - in the desert, wherein our forefathers and mothers roamed for forty years. In the desert we wandered; in the desert we...
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, where some have a tradition to eat milichigs (dairy foods) at the Yom Tov meals, here is a recipe for delectable, creamy, dreamy, delicious, fluffy, sweet, baked Blintz Soufflé. It meets my usual criterion of fast...
In the first of this week’s double parshios, Parshas Behar, we learn of the mitzvah ha’telu’yah ba’Aretz (a mitzvah kept only in the land of Israel): Shemittah, the seventh Sabbatical year. The Torah tells us that when we come to the Land, for six years we...
This is a great, moist and yummy muffin and meets all my requirements: super fast to throw together, satisfyingly delicious, on the healthier and low fat side, freezes perfectly, and delicious with a cup of coffee or a cold glass of milk! It serves as...