Parhsas Bechukosai starts off with the pasuk, “Im Bechukosai Tailechu – If you follow My laws, guard My commandments and observe them.”(26:3) Rashi explains that this means to toil in…
It is well know that a Kohen is not allowed to enter a cemetery so that he does not become impure. This is clearly brought down right in the first…
There are many different mitzvos and rituals discussed in our parsha this week, from instructions for the Holiest day of the year to the commandment to have accurate scales and…
We all know about the physical disease caused by spiritual misdeed that is written about in the Torah this week, Tzaaras. The Gemara in Arachin (16a) gives us a few…
My Grandfather was 14 years old when the Nazis invaded his hometown in Jaworzno, Poland. Throughout the war he faced tremendous trials and tribulations, surviving thirteen concentration camps including Auschwitz.…
If we ever sat down to learn Halacha for even five minutes we would soon realize that there are at least a few things we are doing incorrectly, or not…
Shmuel was a Talmid Chacham who had accomplished much in his years of Torah study. Now he had discovered in an obscure book of Kabbalah that if a person were to go…
This Dvar Torah was written four years ago, but with the current crisis going on it is even more relevant than ever – we are not in control, only God…
We know God is One, when Klal Yisrael made and worshipped the Eigel they had this idea that there was more than one. That this golden calf is able to…
While our holy leader Moshe was up on top of Har Sinai getting all the details of the Torah which Hashem Himself was carving into two stones, some impatient Jews…