…certainly not immediately followed by a festive meal but by the reading of the ketubah (which serves to differentiate it from nisu’in). And even nisu’in is not immediately followed by…
…this I am going to rewind a bit from the Torah reading for Shavuot, which is about mattan Torah, revelation of divine law at Sinai. Immediately preceding that story is…
…fully understand God and God’s will. And even if we could, we are imperfect beings, so we could never perfectly fulfill what God wants of us. There is a really…
…absolutely be some societal consequence if a person continually speaks in an inappropriate manner. It is certainly a good thing that at least some statements are simply unacceptable in our…
…של הלכה בלבד. From the day that the Holy Temple was destroyed, the Holy One, Blessed is He has in this world only the four amot of halakhah. When our…
…think apply equally to our current High Holiday effort to achieve better spiritual fitness. The first lesson comes from something Coach Kozak says in just about every video. “Make this…
…alone as the only one expressly chosen by God to be included in His Torah. Of all the people immortalized in Torah, only Aaron’s date of death is openly marked….
…distancing. The fears of the people were genuine and rational. Seeing Moshe (who, admittedly, had a bit of an anger management problem) lit up like fireworks on the Fourth of…
…that this bit of law could just as easily been revealed directly to Moses as part of the original law, rather than waiting for the people to approach Moses. We…
…and יְ֚תִיב (Yetiv) look alike in a vacuum only, as do the פַּשְׁטָא֙ (Pashta) and קַדְמָ֨א (Kadma). But because they are positioned differently on the word or in a different…
…looked like a King wearing an elegant crown with torn pants, he ultimately became a clown in the eyes of the people. This lesson can apply not only to a…
…Ironically Prshat Emor is always read during sefirat haomer. The commandment of the Omer appears in this week’s Torah portion. It originally dealt with an offering of barley. In our…