PRACTICE MAKES IMPERFECT By: Rabbi Moshe Lichtman
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...
Parshat Devarim: “THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR TROUBLES” by Rabbi Moshe D. Lichtman
THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR TROUBLES This week’s parashah is always read on the Shabbat before Tish’a B’Av (Shabbat Chazon). How appropriate, then, that it contains a recap of the Sin of the Spies, the sin that gave Tish’a B’Av its calamitous nature. I already mentioned...
“Parshat Mas’ei” by Rabbi Moshe D. Lichtman
BESIDES ALL ELSE, IT’S A MITZVAH For the past 300 (or so) pages, we have discussed many aspects of the special qualities of Eretz Yisrael. Quoting Scriptures, Midrashim, Gemarot, Rishonim and Acharonim, we have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that a Jew’s...
“Parshat Matot” by Rabbi Moshe D. Lichtman
LET’S GET OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT The Children of Reuven and the Children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock… They said to Moshe and Elazar… Let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not bring us across the Jordan. (32:1-5)...