By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: NITZAVIM: Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20 VAYELECH: Deuteronomy 31:1-30. DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING “Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done,...
By Rabbi Abraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: KI SEITZEI, Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19. Haftara: Isaiah 54:1-10. WINNING THE PEACE On first examination, our parshah, KI SEITZEI, may appear to be a collection of many apparently unrelated commandments...
Discover the Case for Rabbinic authority for righteous of the nations. If a case is too baffling for you to decide … you shall appear before the priests, or the magistrate in charge at...
We have found considerable lack of clarity in describing the functions of the king. It may very well be that the Torah was intentionally unclear on the subject and avoided detailed explanations so as...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: SHOFTIM, Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9. Haftara: Isaiah 51:12-52:12. The annual cycle of Torah readings is so arranged that parshas SHOFTIM, “Judges”, is always read on the first Shabbos of the...
In this weeks portion, we see Moshe offer peace to King Sihon after G-D commanded for Israel to make war and subjugate them. What was Moshe doing? Was he ignoring G-D’s command? We will...
In this lecture “Proofs for Oral Torah | Parsha Dedavrim we discuss how Devarim acts as a bridge between the Written Torah and the “Oral Torah.” The Oral Torah includes the Talmud and the...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: DEVARIM, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 Isaiah 1:1-27. THE BOTTOM LINE As always, we commence the reading of the book of DEVARIM (Deuteronomy), the last of the Five Books of Moses,...
The themes of DEVARIM part one are appropriate for this period. The Book of DEVARIM is the Torah’s “mouth”, summarizing all that has gone before in the “main body” of the Torah. DEVARIM...
Emunah in the Journey | Rav Cohen Faith (Emunah) is the ingredient to a successful journey of life. Rav Yaakov Cohen brings down an inspirational lesson from this week’s Parshat Matot-Massi. Please follow and like us:
On the face of it, the request of the Gadites and the Reubenites to settle east of the Jordan River appears quite decent and worthy. But Moses raised two arguments against them: 1. How...
One could say that every individual should be judge of himself in order to overcome his cravings; thereby one can see the thread that ties together the subjects in Parashat Matot – those basic...
Chabad.org Daily Study – December 12, 2019 – Kislev 14, 5780
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