Torah

Today is rosh chodesh ;Sivan and today is my 90th day of my journey. I can't believe this.I am sitting here by my computer in a trance.Wow! Did I really accomplish 90 days! Yup, I DID! With thanks to H' and too many other ppl to mention who all helped me pull thru. No, it wasn't an easy journey a...

V'dishnu ess hamizbei'ach, And they shall remove the ashes from the Mizbei'ach ;(7:14)While traveling in the desert, all the keilim of the Mishkan were covered with designated cloth coverings. The mizbeiach was covered with a covering of purple/indigo died wool. The fire that had decended from He...

Rav Chaim Shmulevitz says in Sichos Mussar that we can learn a tremendous lesson from the fact that the Levi'im were counted separately. Rashi says (1:49) that H'shm foresaw that He would decree death against the 20- to 60-year-olds that were counted in this week's parsha and He wanted to count t...

; Sexual Desire = 99% Triggers, 1% Pleasure ;Rebbe Nachman said: "The Yetzer Hara's real name is dimyon (imagination)" ; It's all ;bilbulim ;and hot air! Don't be FOOLED ;

Ki im l'sh'eiro hakarov eilav.Ein sh'eiro ella ishto.(Rashi)The Torah is teaching us that a wife ideally should be the CLOSEST person to ourselves! ;Even closer than our fathers & mothers! **** V'ish ki yochal kodesh bishgaga... ;V'hisiu osam avon ashma b'achlam ess kadsheihem.(22:16)The ;Ohr...

I saw a mind blowing Chazal today that can provide tremendous chizzuk to all of us that are struggling or that fell in the past. The Torah tells us that while a Cohen is permitted to marry a widow, a Cohen Gadol, however, is forbidden. The question is why. I saw brought down this week, that the T...

Listen to a short message of Chizuk regarding Pesach Sheini (3.5 min).

; It is brought down in many places, especially in the chassidish sefarim, that a person needs friends to help him in avodas Hashem. ; Chazal say: ;כל הגדול מחבירו יצרו גדול ממנו. ; The Beis Aharon of Karlin read this in the following way: כל הגדול - מחבירו - Whoever is great, it's from his fri...

To add to the testimonial regarding "The movie theater up in heaven," I too think like that when it comes to fighting the ultimate fight against my yezter hara. ;I recently installed a nanny cam in my house which saves clips on a cloud, and I sometimes watch myself learning in my kitchen...

In this week's Parsha we learn about the animals, fish, insects, and birds that we may not eat. The Torah describes them as "Toeiva" - an abomination. We are taught that by eating these things we are destroying our Neshamos, and the damage is very great. Why is it that these things are so dangero...