Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

In Parshas Shelach  we read about the mitzva  of hafrashas challah  - setting aside a portion of our dough for the Kohanim. The Torah state...

At the end of Parshas Beha'aloscha  (Numbers 12), we read of the incident in which Miriam is punished with tzaraas  for the sin of spea...

The second chapter of Parshas Bamidbar  discusses the division of the Jewish population in the wilderness into four camps, each containing ...

In  Parshas Behar  we read (Leviticus 25:17): ולא תונו איש את עמיתו ויראת מאלקיך כי אני ה' אלקיכם: “And you shall not hurt the feel...

My recent post on Parshas Acharei Mos , The Laws of Sexual Morality: When a Mishpat Appears to be a Chok , elicited a few interesting chall...

The latter portion of parshas Acharei Mos  is a list of the various sexual prohibitions. Before it begins the list, the Torah provides an i...

The main subject in the parshios  of  Tazria-Metzora  is tzaraas , in its various forms. ( Tzaraas  is often mistranslated as leprosy, howe...

The Sefas Emes , R' Yehuda Aryeh Leib of Gur, d.1905, taught in the name of his grandfather, the Chiddushei HaRim : כי עשר מכות נגד ...

The Hagada tells us, “Anyone that speaks abundantly about Yetzias Mitzraim  (the Exodus from Egypt) is praiseworthy.” Rav Shlomo Kluger (d....

In the introductory paragraph of the maggid  section of the Hagada,  “ הא לחמא עניא ”, we find an apparently unconnected sequence of statem...