Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Noah BUT GOD CAME DOWN TO LOOK OVER THE CITY AND THE TOWER THAT THE HUMANS WERE BUILDING. (Bereishit 11:5) One Language? One Set of Words? When they expressed this intention ("and let us make ourselves a name") God fully understood their intention and well knew that their end would be the opposite of what they thought. On the contrary, there exists the possibility of a unified nation. When? When a people is...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Bereishit THE LORD GOD CALLED TO THE HUMAN AND SAID TO HIM; WHERE ARE YOU? HE SAID: I HEARD THE SOUND OF YOU IN THE GARDEN AND I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I AM NUDE, AND SO I HID MYSELF. HE SAID: WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU ARE NUDE? FROM THE TREE ABOUT WHICH I COMMAND YOU NOT TO EAT, HAVE YOU EATEN? THE HUMAN SAID: THE WOMAN WHOM YOU GAVE TO BE BESIDE ME, SHE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora "… WHO HAS KEPT US ALIVE, AND SUSTAINED US THROUGH OUR PURE AWE OF HIM, AND HAS BROUGHT US TO REJOICE IN THE REJOICING OF THE TORAH THAT CHEERS THE HEART AND ENLIGHTENS THE EYES, BRINGS HAPPINESS TO THOSE WHO WALK IN THE GOOD AND RIGHT PATH, LENGTHENS DAYS AND ADDS STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO LOVE IT AND OBSERVE IT— ITS COMMANDS AND ITS WARNINGS— TO THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN TORAH AND GUARD IT...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Sukkot IN HUTS YOU ARE TO STAY FOR SEVEN DAYS, EVERY NATIVE IN ISRAEL IS TO STAY IN HUTS- IN ORDER THAT YOUR GENERATIONS MAY KNOW THAT IN HUTS I HAD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL STAY WHEN I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD! (Vayikra 23:42-43) Transience and Lack of Acquisitiveness as Expressions of Faith The mitzvah of Sukkah requires a temporary dwelling (Sukkah 2a). The author...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Ha'azinu INDEED, AT A DISTANCE YOU SHALL SEE THE LAND, BUT THERE YOU SHALL NOT ENTER, THE LAND THAT I AM GIVING TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (Devarim 32:52) "Indeed, at a distance you shall see the land, but there you shall not come" – Here is written "but there you shall not come"; but further on it is written "but there you shall not cross". It cannot say "there you shall not come", for...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Rosh Hashana At four periods the world is judged; on Pesach – for the grains, on Shavuot – for the fruits of the trees, on Rosh Hashanah all who came into the world pass before Him as sheep, as is written (Psalms 33) "He who fashions the hearts of them all, who discerns all their doings," and on Sukkoth they are judged for water. (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:2) Only the God of Thoughts Can Evaluate...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech FOR THE COMMANDMENT THAT I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY: IT IS NOT TOO EXTRAORDINARY FOR YOU, IT IS NOT TOO FAR AWAY! IT IS NOT IN THE HEAVENS, FOR YOU TO SAY: WHO WILL GO UP FOR US TO THE HEAVENS AND GET IT FOR US AND HAVE US HEAR IT, THAT WE MAY OBSERVE IT… RATHER, NEAR TO YOU IS THE WORD, EXCEEDINGLY, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART, TO OBSERVE IT!...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tavo NOW MOSHE AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL COMMANDED THE PEOPLE, SAYING: AND IT SHALL BE: AT THE TIME THAT YOU CROSS THE JORDAN INTO THE LAND THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU, YOU ARE TO SET UP FOR YOURSELF GREAT STONES AND ARE TO PLASTER THEM WITH PLASTER; YOU ARE TO WRITE ON THEM ALL THE WORDS OF THIS INSTRUCTION, WHEN YOU CROSS OVER, IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ENTER THE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tetseh WHEN YOU BUILD A NEW HOUSE, YOU ARE TO MAKE A PARAPET FOR YOUR ROOF, THAT YOU NOT PUT BLOOD-GUILT ON YOUR HOUSE IF SOMEONE FALLING FALLS FROM IT. (Devarim 22:8) Is Everything in God's Hands? "If someone falling falls from it" – this person deserved to fall, but even so let his death not be caused by you, because merit is awarded through the meritorious and retribution through the guilty. (Rashi,...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat קדיש משפחת לזר 3 13 2003-08-19T19:52:00Z 2003-08-29T14:56:00Z 2003-08-29T14:56:00Z 1 3193 15970 סעד 133 38 19125 10.2625 Clean Clean MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Shoftim JUDGES AND OFFICIALS YOU ARE TO PROVIDE FOR YOURSELVES, WITHIN ALL YOUR GATES THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU, FOR YOUR TRIBAL-DISTRICTS; THEY ARE TO JUDGE THE PEOPLE WITH EQUITABLE JUSTICE. YOU ARE NOT TO CAST ASIDE A CASE FOR JUDGMENT. YOU ARE NOT TO SPECIALLY RECOGNIZE ANYONE'S FACE, AND YOU ARE NOT...