Good morning Friends, I hope that you are all well. For your information, here is the link to a new shiur presented yesterday (Monday, Aug.29). The shiur was related to Parshas Re’eh, but the shiur is essentially a Chodesh Elul shiur - topic is Elul: A...
Once again, in this week’s parsha, Parshas Eikev, we are awed and inspired by the passionate, eloquent, moving and heartfelt words of Moshe Rabbeinu, who began his career as a man “not of words.” The pasuk says: כָּל-הַמִּצְוָה, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם--תִּשְׁמְרוּן לַעֲשׂוֹת: לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּן וּרְבִיתֶם,...
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In this week’s passionate, stirring, eloquent and moving parsha, Parshas V’Eschanan, Moshe continues to lovingly encourage, exhort and teach the nation from whom he will soon part. In this parsha, he reviews one of the tenets of our faith: The Aseres ha’Dibros, which were heard...
For your information, the link to today's Tishaa B'Av shiur, which I presented earlier this afternoon at the Young Israel of Woodmere, is: http://www.yutorah.org/search/?s=horowitz%2C+michal&sort=1 "If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem: In Tears and Pain - Mourning the Churban" The shiur is based on Tehillim Kapitel 137...
Good morning Friends, I hope that you are all well. For those of you who are local: Please note that I will be speaking (shiur for women) this Sunday, Tishaa B'av, at the Young Israel of Woodmere, 1:30-2:15pm. I have prepared a new shiur for our day...
אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד, הָעִיר רַבָּתִי עָם--הָיְתָה, כְּאַלְמָנָה; רַבָּתִי בַגּוֹיִם, שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֹת--הָיְתָה, לָמַס - Alas, how is it possible that she dwells alone, the city (J’lem) that was so full of people has become like a widow! She was great amongst the nations, a princess amongst...
In the first of this week’s parshios, Parshas Matos, as the nation prepares to cross the Jordan River and enter into the Holy Land, the Torah records, in great detail, the account of the Israelite war against the Midianite nation. As they prepare for battle,...
It’s been a while since I sent out a recipe (which is sort of an indication of how much cooking I do in the summer months!), but here is a great keeper of a recipe. It’s fast and easy to make, lasts in the fridge...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Pinchas, we learn of the Bnos Tzelafchad, the five daughters of Tzelafchad, who desired a portion in the Land, as their father died without leaving sons. וַתִּקְרַבְנָה בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד, בֶּן-חֵפֶר בֶּן-גִּלְעָד בֶּן-מָכִיר בֶּן-מְנַשֶּׁה, לְמִשְׁפְּחֹת, מְנַשֶּׁה בֶן-יוֹסֵף; וְאֵלֶּה, שְׁמוֹת בְּנֹתָיו--מַחְלָה נֹעָה, וְחָגְלָה...