Shalom u’vracha to all, Dear friends, Please READ, WRITE & SHARE WIDELY. Rabbi Shalom Axelrod and Rabbi Shay Schachter of the YI of Woodmere will be taking Jewish school children to hand deliver thank you letters to the White House Administration this week. They hope to collect at...
Bereishis 5784: Creation (Ch.1), Man and Woman (Ch.2), First sin (Ch.3), First murder (Ch.4), The ten generations from Adam to Noach (Ch.5). At the very end of the parsha, the Torah tells us of the corruption of man upon earth. The pasukim tell us (Bereishis 6:6-8)...
Chag Ha’Succos 5784. Chag Ha’Succos is known as Succos, the Festival of Booths; Chag ha’Asif, the Festival of Gathering In (ALL-NEW Chag ha’Asif shiur I presented this week: https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecturedata/1075965/The-Lesser-Known-Name-of-Succos:-Chag-Ha'AsifProfound-Lessons-From-the-Festival-of-Gathering-In); and Zman Simcha’seinu - the Festival of Our Joy. While Pesach is known as The Time of...
Five years ago, during the Aseres Yimei Teshuva, on 7 Tishrei 5779, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, Ari Fuld, “The Lion of Zion”, HYD z’l, 45 years old, was stabbed to death at the Gush Etzion Junction shopping mall. Ari made aliyah from NY in 1994,...
Rosh Hashana 5784. Another year - 5783 - has come and gone, and here we stand on the precipice of a new year. We reflect on the year that has passed, on our achievements, our shared mission, our communities, families, friends, and our Land. We...
This week we read the double parshios of Nitzavim-Vayelech. With a strong focus on the mitzvah of teshuva (repentance), these parshios close out 5783. Amongst the very many beautiful stirring and powerful words of Moshe Rabbeinu here, at the very end of his life,...
At the end of this week’s parsha, Parshas Ki Savo, the Torah informs us of the terrible klalos, the curses and Divine retribution, that will befall the nation when it does not go in the ways of Hashem. After recording a series of beautiful brachos...
At the very end of this week’s parsha, Parshas Ki Seitzei, the Torah records the mitzvah of zechiras Amalek: זָכוֹר אֵת אֲשֶׁר-עָשָׂה לְךָ עֲמָלֵק, בַּדֶּרֶךְ, בְּצֵאתְכֶם מִמִּצְרָיִם - You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of Egypt; אֲשֶׁ֨ר...
Towards the end of this week’s parsha, Parshas Shoftim, the Torah teaches us about the parameters and mitzvos in regard to going out to battle (Devarim chapter 20). The opening pasukim tell us: כִּי-תֵצֵא לַמִּלְחָמָה עַל-אֹיְבֶךָ, וְרָאִיתָ סוּס וָרֶכֶב עַם רַב מִמְּךָ--לֹא תִירָא, מֵהֶם: כִּי-ה’ אֱלֹקָיךָ...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Re’eh, we are commanded regarding the mitzvah of giving tzedaka. כִּי-יִהְיֶה בְךָ אֶבְיוֹן מֵאַחַד אַחֶיךָ, בְּאַחַד שְׁעָרֶיךָ, בְּאַרְצְךָ, אֲשֶׁר- ה אֱלֹקְיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ--לֹא תְאַמֵּץ אֶת-לְבָבְךָ, וְלֹא תִקְפֹּץ אֶת-יָדְךָ, מֵאָחִיךָ, הָאֶבְיוֹן - If there will be among you a needy person, from...