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"Ach es Mateh Levi lo sifkod - Don't count Shevet Levi" (1:49) Rashi says that Hashem foresaw that there will be a decree on all those who were counted from age 20 that they will die in the desert, so He said, "These shall not be included, because they are mine, for they ...

We are at the start of a new Sefer, a new Parsha and a new month. A simple question: Why does Parshas Bamidbar always precede the Yom Tov of Shavuos? The Medrash tells us that Torah needs three attributes: Fire, Water and "Midbar - a Desert" Midbar signifies mesiras nefes...

"V'im beheimah asher yakrivu mimena korban laShem kol asher yitein mimenu laShem yiyeh kodesh (27:9) And if an animal which you will bring from it a sacrifice for Hashem, whatever he shall give from it to Hashem will be holy." If someone who is led by his animalistic desi...

Vayikov ben ha'isha ha'yisroelis es Hashem vaykalel..... v'shem imo Shelomis bas Divri l'mateh Dan. (24:11) It is brought down in various Sefarim that bris Hamaor (shemiras habris) is dependent on Bris Halashon. Maybe a source can be found in this posuk. Rashi says that S...

We are standing at the door of Lag B'Omer. Many of us will be heading to Meron. What is the message of this hidden Yom Tov? How do we, who struggle with the Yetzer Hara, gain chizuk and apply it in a practical way? My zayde, the Kedushas Levy, has the answer. It says in t...

"Daber el kol adas bnei yisroel v'amarta aleihem kedoshim tiyhu - Speak to the entire gathering of bnei yisroel and tell them to be holy." (19:2) The Pasuk in Mishlei says: "Leta'aveh yevakesh nifrad", or as I recently heard, this can be paraphrased as L'nifrad yevakesh t...

Rashi: Kol makom she'ata motzei geder ervah, sham ata motzei kedusha. The Viener Rav Shlita explains: Every place that a person sets for himself a boundary & a fence before the ervah, That is where he will find kedusha. It is the small steps that a person takes to kee...

"Daber el kol adas bnei yisroel v'amarta aleihem kedoshim tiyhu ki Kadosh ani Hashem Elokeichem" "Speak to the entire gathering of Bnei Yisroel and tell them to be holy, for I Hashem your G-d, am Holy." This week's parsha really addresses the issues we struggle with.The P...

"V'hizhartem es Bnei Yisroel mitumasam v'lo yamusu b'timasam. (15:31) And you shall warn the Bnei Yisroel about their impurities, that they should not die in their impurities." I heard from Harav Naftalie Jeager Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Sho'or Yoshuv: V'hizartem c...

"V'nasati negah tzora'as b'veis eretz achizaschem. (14:34) - And I will place a Nega Tzara'as in a house in the land of your inheritance." Rashi says that this is good news, because the Emori'im hid golden treasures in the walls of their houses prior to Bnei Yisroel's con...