The wonderous Haggadah Otzros Pla’os HaTorah writes it was the minhag of the Minchas Elazar, following the opinion of the Darchei Chaim Vhasholom, that after eating the egg at the second Seder, they would sing Eishes Chayil. The...
The new Haggadah presented by ArtScroll this year from the Chachmei Lublin (a must read!), reveals that Rav Meir Shapiro, zt”l, zy”a, chose, in gold letters, that the front gates of his magnificent Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin quoted the verse,...
My veteran readers will remember that sometimes I imagine a simulated, fictional interview with the Yeitzer Hara to give us an inner look into the machinations of the one whose mission it is to cause us to sin....
My veteran readers will remember that sometimes I imagine a simulated, fictional interview with the Yeitzer Hara to give us an inner look into the machinations of the one whose mission it is to cause us to sin....
With great excitement, Purim is rapidly approaching! So, as we take out our copies of Megilas Esther and the many amazing commentaries, I’d like to share with you a powerful observation I once noticed with the help of...
“There are many reasons given why the Torah is compared to water.” In these parshious of Yisro and Mishpatim, we are given much information about the Torah. A famous metaphor for Torah is mayim, water, as in the verse,...
The idea that out of 613 mitzvos Hashem handpicked ten for special highlighting on the two luchos, the two tablets, leads to a lot of fascinating speculation. Let me share some of my musings with you. The three most...
Last week, we started discussing the fundamental attribute of middah k’neged middah, measure for measure; how Hashem punishes and rewards to exactly match a person’s own behavior. We cited the Rambam who says that this is a thread that...
As we learn the parsh- ios regarding the pun- ishment of the Egyp- tians, a central theme that runs through them is the attribute of treat- ing people middah k’neged middah, measure for measure. As the Gemara teaches...
In the parshios that we are reading these days, we learn about arguably the greatest person to ever live, Moshe Rabbeinu. Did you ever wonder why we call him Moshe Rabbeinu and not the more customary sequence, Rabbeinu Moshe,...