55 Lessons
B’HAR
Rabbi Berel Wein | 22 Shvat 5784
Everything that Heaven does has good within it
Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 20 5783
Family Feeling
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Iyar 20 5783
Courage counts!
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Iyar 20 5783
Miscellaneous Mitzvah Matters
The midrash at the beginning of this week’s parsha mentions that the details of all mitzvos were taught at Sinai, making this topic extremely timely…
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyar 20 5783
Behar: To The Summit!
Rabbi Netanel Yossifun | 5783 Iyar 20
Moving Heaven and Earth
Har Sinai is a kind of conduit, a connector between Heaven & Earth. It’s message is that every act we perform, every Mitzva we keep, reverberates & impacts both above & below.
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Iyar 11 5782
On the Mount of Sinai
Life is never an easy climb, but climb it we must, to be able to stand at its peak, and truly observe life in society in a measured and wise way.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 11 5782
The Economics of Liberty
Judaism has no class system. We are all God’s children, all precious in His sight, each with a contribution to make to the common good.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Iyar 11 5782
What Makes Shemitta Special?
Shemitta is special in its requiring great faith in Hashem to fulfill, in essence relying upon a miracle. This mitzva comes with a promise that Hashem will decree a unique blessing in the sixth year to sustain us until the produce of that which is sown in the eighth year is ready for harvest.
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Iyar 8 5782
Shmita - Rest for the Man or for the Land?
Is it the land lying fallow that is the central theme, or are the Jews who do not work it during the shmita year the focus?
Rabbi Yonatan Kirsch | Cheshvan 7 5782
What's First - Messiah or Aliya
Israel National Torah
Looking at the Ohr HaHayim's commentary on this week's Parshat Behar to discover the answer to the centuries-old question: Will Redemption come miraculously or by natural means?
Baruch Gordon | Iyar 23 5781
Creators Belonging
The idea behind the sabbatical year remains fixed in the minds and hearts of the Jewish people wherever they may live. And that basic idea is simple: that the world and all its land belongs to and is subject to the will of the Creator.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Iyar 22 5781
Different Types of Respite
Sefer Vayikra was given during Bnei Yisrael’s period in the desert. It is therefore telling that the Torah already relates as a given fact the situation in which they are working the fields of Eretz Yisrael, suspending work during Shemitta and Yovel, and following the rules of transactions regarding real estate in the Land among other financial matters.
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Iyar 21 5781
What's First - Messiah or Aliya?
Israel National Torah
Who must initiate the redemption of Israel? Will it be G-D through blatant miracles, or will the Jewish people gradually awaken to return home? The Or Hachaim answers that question based on this week's Torah reading.
Baruch Gordon | Iyar 21 5780
The Yovel and You
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Iyar 21 5780
Evolution or Revolution?
Behar 5779
Behar 5779
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Iyar 11 5779
FAITH THE FACTS
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Iyar 11 5779
Freedom – For Whose Sake?
After the seventh in a series of Shemitta cycles, Bnei Yisrael, in the time that “all its inhabitants” are in Eretz Yisrael, are commanded in the laws of Yovel (Vayikra 25:8-13). There are three main halachot: Jewish slaves are set free (ibid. 10); the land is not worked, as in the previous Shemitta year (ibid. 11); fields that were sold are returned to their original owner (ibid. 13).
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Iyar 17 5778