Bechukotai

History of the Jewish People

A brief Dvar Torah on the Parsha, based on R. Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Torah Commentary

A Tale of Two Mountains

This Shabbat, we find ourselves between two staggering events: the tragedy at Har Meron last Friday, and Yom Yerushalayim this Sunday night and Monday. Two mountains, steeped in Jewish history, associated with the most significant personalities and pathos: Avraham, Yitzchak and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

The balance of hope and warning

Komamiyut / Upright

Parashat Bechukotai

“We the People”

The Sages said: “‘They will stumble over each other’” – read this as ‘stumble because of one another’: this teaches that all Israelites are responsible for one another.” This is an exceedingly strange passage. Why locate this principle here?

WALK THE WALK

The Earth is the Lord's

1. Shmitta - Incumbent on the Person or the Land? 2. Holiness Fosters Mitzvoth 3. The Earth is the Lord's

Miracles & Mashiach