by HaRav Yisroel Blumenthal | May 28, 2020 | Shavuos
Love doesn’t calculate. Love is innocent. Love yearns and it follows. But love does not ask: what will I gain? Could I really get there? The word “love” is used very sparingly in Tanach. In all of Tanach, Avraham Avinu is the only one that Hashem describes as: “the... by HaRav Yisroel Blumenthal | May 22, 2020 | Rosh Chodesh
When Rosh Chodesh falls on a Sunday we read the haftora of Mochor Chodesh. Aside from the opening phrase of the haftora, it would seem that this selection has nothing to do with the new moon. But when we study the words of Chazal we see the relevance of this... by HaRav Yisroel Blumenthal | May 15, 2020 | Parsha
The opening possuk of our parsha links the mitzvah of shmita to Har Sinai. Rashi quotes Chazal who explain that the Torah put these two concepts together to teach us that just as the mitzvah of shmita was given at Sinai together with all of her details (that are... by HaRav Yisroel Blumenthal | May 8, 2020 | Parsha
In this week’s parsha the Torah presents all of the Yomim Tovim. Then the Torah commands us about the Menorah and the Shulchan. And our parsha closes with the horrifying incident of the megadef, the person who spoke against the name of Hashem. How do these concepts... by HaRav Yisroel Blumenthal | May 1, 2020 | Parsha
In both of this week’s parshiyos, Acharei Mos and Kedoshim, we read about the various forbidden marriages. And in both of these parshiyos we find that the Torah contrasts the kedusha that Klal Yisroel is charged with over and against the abhorrent actions of the...
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