Torah

The Kapores & its Keruvim were not fashioned as separate pieces and soldered together. Rather, they took a large chunk of gold & started banging at its core. The gold piles at the ends grew higher & higher and they sculpted them into the Keruvim. These Keruvim...

"Vechen taasu," Rashi: "im yoivad oy keshetaaseh klei bais olamim." The Torah is giving instructions how to create a place where the Shechinah will rest, how to construct the necessary components. The Torah is telling you from the very beginning that you might need to fix...

Dear Friends, The Mishkan, and subsequently the Bais Hamikdosh, represents Klal Yisroel in the most unified state. “The Mishkon is One”, referenced in our Parshah, right after the phrase of “connecting her to her sister” implies a unity, a building of a great home for a u...

In Parshas Yisro, the Father in Law of Moshe Rabbeinu, having heard all the great miracles that G-d did for the Jewish people, comes to meet Moshe in the dessert and exclaims: וַיִּחַדְּ יִתְרוֹ... וַיֹּאמֶר... עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי, כִּי-גָדוֹל ה' מִכָּל-הָאֱלֹהִים, כִּי בַ...

The ultimate moment of glory for the Jewish people — their greatest hour — occurred as God revealed His Torah to them at Mount Sinai. The Israelites made an amazing proclamation: Na'aseh VeNishma — "We will do and we will listen to all that God has declared" (Ex. 24:7). T...

Question: I have a question for Rabbi Twerski or any Chabad rabbi who is on the GYE board. How do the 12-steps go with the concept of “moach shalit al halev” (“Mind rules over the heart”)? GYE Responds: Good question. Let's take the example of someone who has Diabetes. Fo...

From this article about Rabbi Levin Zatza"l Rav Levin’s rebbi, Rav Doniel, once asked, “Is man jealous of the wings of an eagle?” As the question sunk in, he responded, “No. Man is not jealous of wings. In fact, if a person would grow wings, he would be a baal mum; ther...

וישמע יתרו כהן מדין את כל אשר עשה וגומר מה שמועה שמע ובא? קריאת ים סוף ומלחמת עמלק, רש"י Why does Rashi ask what Yisro heard? the pasuk says he heard everything that Hashem did to the Mitzriyim. The Jews experienced at Krias Yam Suf things that nevi'im did not experience....

Vayishma Yisro - Yisro heard. Yisro heard about K'riyas Yam Suf & the victory over Amalek. Vaysaper Moshe l'chasno... - And Moshe described to his Father-in-Law To draw his heart, to bring him nearer to Torah (Rashi)ess kol hatla'ah asher metza'asam baderech-all the ...

Hashem cares for all our needs, but He asks us not to eat from just one tree: 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat from it, you shall surely die.' But whe...