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Be careful with the authorities because they only become close to a person for their own benefit They befriend when it helps them but do not stand up for you when things are difficult. (A read more »
Rabbi Jonathan Rietti
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by Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein
A Video lecture about the rabbi's teacher that passed away. read more »
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by Rabbi Berel Wein
In continuing its description of the artifacts that were to be placed in the mishkan, the Torah informs us regarding the kiyor – the type of laver or fountain that was installed in the courtyard of the mishkan and la read more »
In continuing its description of the artifacts that were to be placed in the mishkan, the Torah informs us regarding the kiyor – the type of laver or fountain that was installed in the courtyard of the mishkan and la read more »
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok
The story of the Golden Calf is really a hard one to swallow at face value. The entire nation of three million people stood at Mt. Sinai and saw with their own eyes the entire unraveling of the fabric of space/time as w read more »
The story of the Golden Calf is really a hard one to swallow at face value. The entire nation of three million people stood at Mt. Sinai and saw with their own eyes the entire unraveling of the fabric of space/time as w read more »
What It’s Certainly Not About: Zionism
Last time, I finally offered my one-paragraph version of the mission. From here, there are really only read more »
Vayakhel / Pikudei
by Rabbi Label Lam
For the cloud of HASHEM would be on the Tabernacle by day, and the fire would be on it by night before the eyes of all the children of Israel throughout their journeys. (Shemos 40:38)
Perhaps your heart will say, “Just as i read more »
For the cloud of HASHEM would be on the Tabernacle by day, and the fire would be on it by night before the eyes of all the children of Israel throughout their journeys. (Shemos 40:38)
Perhaps your heart will say, “Just as i read more »
by Rabbi Mayer Friedman
“And Moshe assembled the entire assembly of the Children of Israel and said to them: These are the things that Hashem commanded, to do them” (35:1)
The Olelos Efraim points out that this gathering occurred on the day a read more »
“And Moshe assembled the entire assembly of the Children of Israel and said to them: These are the things that Hashem commanded, to do them” (35:1)
The Olelos Efraim points out that this gathering occurred on the day a read more »
by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Overview
Parshat Vayakhel
Moshe Rabbeinu exhorts Bnei Yisrael to keep Shabbat, and requests donations for the materials for making the Mishkan. He collects gold, silver, precious stones, skins and yarn, as well read more »
Overview
Parshat Vayakhel
Moshe Rabbeinu exhorts Bnei Yisrael to keep Shabbat, and requests donations for the materials for making the Mishkan. He collects gold, silver, precious stones, skins and yarn, as well read more »
by Rabbi Berel Wein
The haftorah for this week’s parsha describes the efforts of the great King Shlomo in the construction of the First Temple. King Shlomo himself is a great and tragic figure. The attitude of the Talmud towards him is an ambiva read more »
The haftorah for this week’s parsha describes the efforts of the great King Shlomo in the construction of the First Temple. King Shlomo himself is a great and tragic figure. The attitude of the Talmud towards him is an ambiva read more »
by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Overview
Parshat Pekudei
The Book of Shemot concludes with this Parsha. After finishing all the different parts, vessels and garments used in the Mishkan, Moshe gives a complete accounting and enumeration of al read more »
Overview
Parshat Pekudei
The Book of Shemot concludes with this Parsha. After finishing all the different parts, vessels and garments used in the Mishkan, Moshe gives a complete accounting and enumeration of al read more »
by Rabbi Berel Wein
The conclusion of the book of Shmot describes the attainment of Israel in having the Divine Presence rest upon the Jewish people through the medium of the Mishkan that it had built in the desert of Sinai. Ramban states that t read more »
The conclusion of the book of Shmot describes the attainment of Israel in having the Divine Presence rest upon the Jewish people through the medium of the Mishkan that it had built in the desert of Sinai. Ramban states that t read more »
by Rabbi Mayer Friedman
“These are the reckonings of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of Testimony, which were reckoned at Moshe's bidding; the labor of the Levites was under the authority of Isamar, son of Aharon the Kohen” (38:21)
In his sef read more »
“These are the reckonings of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of Testimony, which were reckoned at Moshe's bidding; the labor of the Levites was under the authority of Isamar, son of Aharon the Kohen” (38:21)
In his sef read more »
