Eikev: Wearing & Tying Shoes
The Shulchan Aruch states that we should don our right shoe first, and then the left; but tying shoes is in the opposite order – first left, then right. (SA OC...
Vaetchanan – Hatov Vehametiv in Birkat Hamazon
This Shabbat is Tu b’Av, a happy day when Tachanun is normally omitted because of the many joyful historical events which occurred on this date. One such event is that on...
Devarim: Commemoration of the Destruction
Although the Temple in Yerushalayim has been desolate for almost two thousand years, its memory is very much alive for the Jewish people. We remember the Temple in our daily prayers,...
Matot-Masei – Habits which Lead to Forgetfulness
The Talmud mentions a number of habits which can lead to forgetfulness in Torah study. They are: Eating something which was nibbled by a cat or a mouse Eating the heart...
Pinchas: Assessing a Potential Spouse
The gemara tells us that there is a difference between the way men and women evaluate a potential match. “Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav, it is forbidden for...
Chukat: Purity of the Land of Israel
This week’s parsha talks about the tumah of a dead body, and the way to become purified from it. Nowadays, the main halakhic importance of this tum’a is that Kohanim are...
Korach: Tzitzit of Tekhelet
“Meaning in Mitzvot” generally discusses only mitzvot that are practically carried out in our day. Today we will discuss a mitzva that many, though not most, authorities believe that we can...
Shelach: Moving to Israel
In our parsha, the spies were punished for not showing sufficient desire to enter Eretz Yisrael. Let us study one of the many halakhot which express the importance of moving here....
Beha’alotcha: Laws of Gifts
Rav Natan of Breslav begins his discussion of the laws of gifts with a surprising question: why are gifts appropriate at all? While we may not find anything unusual or objectionable...
Naso: Birkat Kohanim
Our parsha contains the special mitzva to the Kohanim to bless the people each day with the familiar three-part priestly blessing. (Bamidbar 6:22-27.) We often refer to this blessing as “nesiat...
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