by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Hesder
Why do we eat Maror on Pesach? Ostensibly, the answer to this question is so straightforward that it is not I who should be speaking about this, but my pre-school-age grandchild. Why is it so straightforward? Because it is one of the only cases in which the reason for...
by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Hesder
In the beginning of this week’s parshah, God reveals himself to Moshe and tells him his mission. Yet, this is not the first time that God has informed Moshe of his mission, as God has already told Moshe his mission in last week’s parshah at the episode of the Burning...
by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Hesder
This week, we begin a new Sefer, a Sefer in which the nation of Israel is born and the redemption of the world progresses to its next stage. This Sefer, as its name and opening phrase, “And these are the names,” suggests, will highly emphasize the concept of names....
by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | American, Parsha
Rabbi Starr is the rabbi of Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta, GA. Moshe, the fearless leader of the Jewish people, left the comforts of royalty to lead his enslaved brethren, and led the people out of Egypt culminating with the splitting of the sea. But Moshe is...
by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | American, Parsha
Rabbi Marcus is the rabbi of Congregation Israel in Springfield, NJ. Earlier this week, on the 10th of Shevat, was the yahrzeit of Rav Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal hy”d, the author of a sefer written during the dark days of the Shoah, Eim HaBanim Semeichah, a work...
