Parsha Related

Avraham Avinu is instructed by Hakadosh Baruch Hu to go up to the mountain and to bring Yitzchok as a Korban. R' Moishe Rosenstein gives a very beautiful and powerful insight as to why this was such a difficult test. He says, that when someone has a test and it's in front of everyone, then as di...

BS”D Shalom u’Brachah, to our dear Jewish brothers and sisters in Brazil, This week, before I sent my son, Rabbi Yisochar Dov Taub, shlit”a, on a Chizzuk mission to your country, several of your community activists informed us that a recently enacted law effectively prevents educators in Jewish s...

Avraham – the First Man in Recovery! ;עשרה נסיונות נתנסה אברהם אבינו ועמד בכלם להודיע כמה חבתו של אברהם אבינו "Our forefather Abraham was tested with ten trials and he withstood all of them - to show the degree of our forefather Abraham's love for G-d." ;(Pirke Avos 4:2) What really is a "Test?...

"Come I shall advise you what this people will do to your people" (Bamidbar 24:14). What advice is Bilaam referring to? Rashi explains that he's informing Balak that the G-d of Israel hates licentiousness, therefore if you want to succeed then cause them to stumble in this area. Bilaam understood...

Bilaam said: "He perceived no iniquity in Yaakov, and saw no perversity in Israel" (Bamidbar 23:21) - even if a Jew acts improperly, Hashem will not see any wrong - He will, so to speak, "look the other way", and therefore not see, because, as Bilaam explains, "Hashem his G-d is with him, and the...

“We have been trying to get a New Attitude, a New Relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacle in our path” (the Mission Statement on ;BB pg 72) ; Noach - the most Mysterious Figure in the Torah Tucked smack in the middle of the generations between Adam HaRishon and Abraham i...

First and foremost I thank this very special group, the finest of the finest, called GYE. ; For many decades I could not rid myself of using porn and acting out until I found this site. Today, thanks to Hashem, I am three years clean. ; ;I often have to travel by plane for my different endeavor...

“Perhaps there is among you one whose Heart turns away from being with Hashem” פן יש בכם איש או אשה ...אשר לבבו פנה היום מעם יה-וה For some of us, this time of year reminds us of December 31st. ;You know that crazy night when everyone is at a party or at a bar counting down the hours, the minute...

People cannot help when an improper impulse comes to mind, but they certainly can stop themselves from harboring the thought and allowing it to dominate their thinking. Yet, sometimes one may be responsible even for the impulse itself. While some impulses are completely spontaneous, others arise ...

Is there any REST in this Journey called Life? Parasha Devarim is the last book of our Torah. ;And is referred to as ;"Mishneh Torah" which is translated as "repetition of the Torah." ;Our Sages teach us that the entire Book of Devarim was spoken by Moses to the Jewish people during the last fe...