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Why is it that we call it a "Bar" Mitzvah - literally a "son of a mitzvah", as opposed to a sinner who we call a "Ba'al" Aveira? Why don't we call a sinner a "Bar" Aveira too?Answered the holy Chofetz Chaim: "Baal" in lashon hakodesh can also mean a husband. A husband c...

IN THIS WEEK'S PARSHA - VAYIGASH, AFTER YOSEF REVEALED HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS, THEY WERE SO ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES THAT THEY TRIED TO HIDE FROM HIM. YOSEF HATZADIK PULLED THEM CLOSE AND TELLS HIS BROTHERS: "VA'ATTA AL TIE'ATZVU - AND NOW, DON'T BE SAD". SAYS THE HELIGER R...

I heard something nice from the Ktav Sofer that explains some of my behavior after my fall this week. When Yaakov goes down to Egypt and finally sees Yosef, it says "va'yevch al tzavarav od," that Yosef cried on Yaakov's neck. Rashi explains that the word 'od' means that ...

"LampLighter" wrote on the forum: This week's parsha is talking to US! It deals with Yehuda's sons, who were killed for wasting seed, and this is the source brought down in Shulchan-Aruch for this aveira! We should always try to see the Torah as being given to us "hayom" ...

Question: Why did Hashem tell Moshe to tell Pharaoh that the Jewish people just wanted to just leave "derech shloshes yamim - a way of three days" to serve Hashem, making it sound like we were planning to come back? Indeed when we finally left, Pharaoh sent spies after us...

In this week's parshas Tzav, we find the last shalsheles in the Torah (where the baal koreh reads a triple sound). It appears on the word "vayishchat - and he slaughtered". Why?? We find a shalsheles in the following 4 places in the Torah: By the wife of Lot: "Viyismama -...

In the Gemara in Sanhedrin (26:) Rav Nachman states that even though someone who committed a sin is disqualified from serving as a witness, the aveira of arayos is not as stringent. Tosafos explain that even though the general rule is that a mumar leta'ovin is considered ...

This weeks Parsha begins with the famous word Vayikra - with the small Alef. Much has been said about the small Alef. Bardichev will attempt to add a relevant message. In the perek Tehillim that we say every Friday night right before lecha dodi, there are 7 references to ...

"Vayovo'u ho'anoshim al hanoshim, kol n'div leiv - And the men came with the women, all those whose hearts wished to donate" Rashi says: "im hanoshim, usmichim lahem - (they came) with the women, and close to them". I've been wondering for many years about this posuk, wha...

We are standing now at the cusp of Chodesh Nissan and we are reading this Shabbos about the SHIVAS YIMAY HAMILUIM - and we are actually in the days of the Miluim. The Medrash Tanchumah tells us the Moshe Rabbainu built the Mishkan twice every, and another opinion holds he...