Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Simhat Tora MOSES WENT UP FROM THE STEPPES OF MOAB TO MOUNT NEBO, TO THE SUMMIT OF PISGAH, OPPOSITE JERICHO, AND THE LORD SHOWED HIM THE WHOLE LAND; GILEAD AS FAR AS DAN… AND THE LORD SAID TO HIM, "THIS IS THE LAND OF WHICH I SWORE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, SAYING, ‘I WILL ASSIGN IT TO YOUR OFFSPRING.' I HAVE LET YOU SEE IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES, BUT YOU SHALL NOT CROSS THERE....
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ha'azinu – Sukkot A sukkah whose height exceeds twenty cubits is unfit, but Rabbi Yehudah allows it… (Mishnah Sukkah 1:1) What is the scriptural basis?… Rava said: From You shall dwell in sukkot for seven days (Vayikra 23) – The Torah said: Leave your permanent dwelling and live in a temporary dwelling for all of those seven days. Up to twenty cubits – a person has made temporary dwelling; More than twenty...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayelech Rabbi Eliezer said: Since the destruction of the Temple, the gates of prayer are locked, for it is written, Also when I cry out, He shuts out my prayer (Eikhah 3:8). Yet though the gates of prayer are locked, the gates of tears are not, for it is written, Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry, hold not your peace at my tears (Tehillim 39:13)… Rav Hisada said: All gates...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Nitzavim WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU, FORGIVING ANY INIQUITY AND REMITTING TRANSGRESSION; WHO HAS NOT MAINTAINED HIS WRATH FOREVER AGAINST THE REMNANT OF HIS OWN PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE LOVES GRACIOUSNESS! HE WILL TAKE US BACK IN LOVE; HE WILL COVER UP OUR INIQUITIES, YOU WILL HURL ALL THEIR SINS INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. (Micah 7:18-19) Recitation of the Tashlikh by a River The point of the custom of reciting the passage...