Parashat Ki Teitze by Rabbi Moshe Lichtman

by | Aug 30, 2017 | American, American, Parsha

THE LEAP OF FAITH One of the many mitzvot enumerated in this week’s parashah is the prohibition of causing a fellow Jew to take interest (ribit) – i.e., borrowing money on interest.  (The prohibition of lending on interest is stated in Shemot 22:24 and VaYikra...

Parashat Ki Teitzei by Rabbi Howard Jachter

by | Aug 30, 2017 | American, American, Parsha

Sh’mor Sh’eirit Yisrael!             It was an unusually thunderous speech from Rav Aharon Lichtenstein delivered on Purim 5442 (1982) at Yeshivat Har Etzion, one of Israel’s premier Yeshivot Hesder.  Rav Lichtenstein summoned the Talmidim to follow the example of...

Parashat Shoftim by Rabbi Moshe D. Lichtman

by | Aug 24, 2017 | American, American, Parsha

PERMANENT PROPERTY You shall not move your fellow man’s boundary, which the earlier ones established, in your inheritance that you shall inherit, in the Land that the Lord, your God, gives you to possess it.  (19:14) The Midrash (Sifrei) comments: What does this verse...
PRACTICE MAKES IMPERFECT By: Rabbi Moshe Lichtman

PRACTICE MAKES IMPERFECT By: Rabbi Moshe Lichtman

by | Aug 10, 2017 | American, American

Twice a day we recite the second paragraph of Kri’at Shema, taken from this week’s parashah.  By the age of twenty, we have said it well over 10,000 times!  If we have paid any attention to what we’ve been saying, we know that it talks about the blessings we will...