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Balak - A Mouse Hole
The Talmud comments it is not the mouse that is a thief, but, rather, it is the hole in the wall that allows the mouse entry into the house that is the culprit. the villain in this week's Torah reading is Bilaam, yet, it is Balak who initiates the entire scenario.
The Breaking of the Tablets
The giving of the Torah was intended to lead to lead up to the reception of the Tablets. The shattering of the Tablets actually returned things to their original state. This is how our Sages see the Seventeenth of Tammuz.
The Weak Point
There is a tendency, on fast days, for people to concentrate upon the calamities of the past. People reflect on the distant past when they aught to consider the present.
The spiritual view The spiritual view Why Do We Say Shabbat Shalom?
All right-thinking people in this world want shalom – peace. Why is it that almost since the beginning of time, peace has been elusive and often illusory. Shabbat holds the answer.
Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Tammuz 8 5781
The spiritual view Spiritual philosophy behind Shabbos
Rabbi Yaakov Labinsky
The spiritual view Shabat As Value
Rabbi Berel Wein | Tevet 5768
The spiritual view A Return To The Sabbath
Rabbi Berel Wein
The spiritual view Shabbat Preparations
Even a person who has many servants should try to prepare personally something for the Sabbath. R' Chisda would mince vegetables; Rabbah and R' Yosef would chop wood. Every person should make them his example, for honoring the Sabbath is a privilege.
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l | 5767
The spiritual view Women in Judaism Women in Judaism The Woman and Her Commandments
Essentially, men and women are created equal and both are graced by the divine image through which every human being is created. Likewise, the unalterable chosenness of the Jewish people and their innate holiness embraces men and women alike.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5766
Women in Judaism Women's level in serving Hashem
Throughout the centuries, the Jewish women had a strong faith in God, a faith which brought the redemption of the nation.
Rabbi Moshe Tzuriel
Women in Judaism Women, Kiddush and Bracha Acharonah
"I was told years ago that I should make kiddush before I eat Shabbos morning. Recently, someone told me that this was not necessary. What should I do?" "I recited the after bracha on the cake, but forgot to include al hagafen for the wine I drank. I didn’t know whether I was supposed to recite the bracha acharonah again, in order to say the al hagafen, or whether I should do nothing."
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Women in Judaism Women, Precepts, and Perimeters
As a rule, women are obligated to observe the commandments of the Torah just like men, with the exception of positive time-bound precepts. Yet, if a woman wishes to voluntarily perform a positive time-bound commandment, she receives merit for this.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5766
Women in Judaism Shabbat Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Which Way to Turn at Bo’i B’shalom?
In what direction should one turn when getting up to “Bo’i B’shalom” at the end of Lecha Dodi? Many shuls seems to have confusion on the matter.
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Sivan 10 5780
The Melachot When May I Ask a Non-Jew for Help on Shabbos? Part II
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Adar 8 5780
General Laws What Happens When We Do Something Wrong?
Can Cholent be eaten if salt and pepper were added on Shabbat? Benifiting from a mutual fund maintained on Shabbat? Can one use a clothes that are hand-knit by a relative on Shabbat?
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5775
Shabbat Adding Sanctity to the Sabbath
The precept of adding to Sabbath teaches us that there is no complete separation between mundane weekdays and the sacred Sabbath. The mundane aspires to cling to the sacred, and our job is to sanctify the mundane and make it a vessel for sanctity.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5765
The Melachot When May I Ask a Non-Jew for Help on Shabbos?
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Adar 1 5780
Ein Ayah Shabbat – Feeding the Internal to the External
Various Rabbis | 5775
Shabbat
Balak
Rabbi Berel Wein | תמוז תש"ע
The Company You Keep
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tamuz 14 5775
Ma Tovu Ohalekha Ya’akov
Parashat Balak
Rabbi Joseph Tabory | 5765
Bilam's Predicament
Parashat Balak
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
The phenomena of sight
Rabbi Yaakov Zev | Tamuz 5767
Balak - A Mouse Hole
Rabbi Berel Wein | Tammuz 13 5781
Tisha B’Av- A National Yahrtzeit?
Various Rabbis | 5770
Customs of the Three Weeks
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Sivan 5768
Selected Halachos of the Days of Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5767
Introspection on the Seventeenth of Tammuz
Rabbi Yaakov Ariel | 5764
Do the Clothes Make the Man? Not if They are Washed During the Nine Days!
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 4 5776
Where’s the Beef? - Eating Meat During the Nine Days
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 3 Av 5768
Complete Faith Brings Happiness
G-d instructed Moshe and Aharon to speak to the boulder and extract from it water. At this point, Moshe speaks very sharply to Israel, calling them "rebels," and then strikes the boulder. Some commentators said that what Moshe did wrong (I don't like saying that Moshe "sinned") is that he spoke in anger to Israel, and others say that he hit the rock instead of speaking to it. The Maharal of Prague explains that these two things are one: Because Moshe got angry, therefore he hit the boulder instead of speaking to it. "Anger" means a lack of happiness, a lack of emuna and trust in G-d. The Maharal says that joy and faith in G-d always come together.
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tammuz 8 5781
You Better Think
If you look at this Parsha in a Sefer Torah, you will immediately notice that Bilaam’s narrative is written in “block form” without the usual open spaces (parsha “breaks”) that are found in most Parshiyot.
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Taamuz 13 5781
Proper Yir'at Hashem in the Modern World
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 7 5781
Micha’s Mashiach
The minhag is to read, as the haftara of Parashat Balak, a section of Micha, apparently because of one of its p’sukim: “My nation, remember what Balak, King of Moav, advised and what Bilam ben Be’or answered him …”. We will suggest another explanation.
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tammuz 10 5781
Can We Offer Today New Commentaries on the Tanach?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 13 5781
Basis of Religious-Zionist & Haredi Approaches
Why does the Religious-Zionist public view the establishment of the State of Israel as part of the Redemption process, and why does the Haredi public object to the State institutions and hold that the existence of the State is not part of the process? On what sources is each approach based?
Rabbi S. Yossef Weitzen | Tammuz 8 5781
Remembering the Temple's Destruction
The sages ruled that when a person builds a house for himself and arrives at its final stage, the whitewashing of the walls, he must remember that the Holy Temple still lies in ruins. He must therefore leave a square cubit of wall without whitewash.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Reciting Brachos in the Presence of Unpleasant Odors
Reciting Brachot, Benching and learning Torah in the Presence of Unpleasant Odors. May one wash for bread in a public restroom? Can one discuss Torah while walking through city streets where there are dumpsters or dog droppings? What if one cannot smell? and more.
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 6 SHVAT 5769
Pizza, Pretzels and Pastry
When is the Bracha Hamotzi and when is it a Mezonot?
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
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