Torah

Lo Sasuru Acharei Eineichem is a Lo Sa'aseh on Hirhur Halev. How could there be a Lo Sa'aseh if Chazal say that a negative Machshava H' doesn't consider a Ma'aseh Aveira? R' Chaim Vital explains that a Chet is a combination of 4 things - Thought in the Brain, thought in t...

מצוה שפ״ז שלא נתור אחר מחשבת הלב The chinuch compares one who pursues lust to an alcoholic: כי התאוה תמשוך הבשר כמשוך היין אל שותים. How's that for an endorsement of AA. The chinuch also writes that there is no malkus for one who violated this lav since its impossible ...

Picture what the scene must have looked like. Moshe tells the Bnei Yisroel everyone that is twenty years old and up should bring a machtzis hashekel to be counted. These coins are going to be used for the foundation of the mishkan. Do we have a concept of what it means...

It happens all the time we have a nasty fall and we finally get back up and all of the sudden we act like big tzaddikim. In a way, we are acting no different than the maplim. The cheit of the meraglim a tremendous yeridah that we are still paying the price for today. Y...

We are are continuing our new weekly Series – “How this Parasha relates to the Struggler” Have you ever faced a new opportunity or a big challenge? Did you ever really want to change but something always seemed to get in the way? You may be asking, what is keeping me fr...

Fight isn't ours: We are not asked to fight, we are only asked to want and ask for His help. Give it over to Hashem and pray, "Hashem, I can't, but You can. Take it from me please". It passes: The strong desires and confusion we feel now will pass. In just a short ti...

"Good, I'm patur! But how can I miss out on a mitzvah?" Their attitude was that missing a mitzvah is a deprivation. It is something that I am going to miss, and I do not want that to happen. It is not a question of punishment and it is not a question of blame. It is a se...

HASHEM said to Moshe saying, “Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you “light-up” the lamps, toward the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast light.” Aaron did so- (Bamidbar 8:1-2)Aaron did so: To teach you the praise of Aaron that he did not change. (Rashi)What’s...

When I was seven years old I had the privilege of hearing the Chavler Rov, one of the biggest Geonim [geniuses] in the world. He said to my father, imagine that a big Rosh Yeshiva is walking down the street. Suddenly on the other side of the street there is a very beautif...

Beha'aloscha starts with the commandment to Aharon to light the Menorah. We all know the famous Rashi that why is this Parsha of Menora near the Parsha of the Nesi'im. Aharon was saddened that Shevet Levi was not part of the grand pageantry that was the Chanuchas Hamizbea...