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Parshas Balak – EVIL

When Avot 5:22 wishes to present us with models that personify the battle of good and evil, it informs us of the merits and...

Parshat Balak – Nekom Nikmat Benei Yisrael

"The entire nation is bowing its head with unbearable sorrow this evening. Over the past 18 days the nation prayed as one that the...

Parshat Chukat – “Let Me Repeat”

The poem had a place of prominence on our kitchen bulletin board for many years. We had clipped it from a women's magazine, and...

Parshat Chukat – Does prayer work?

It seems that over the early summer months the Torah portions repeat a theme week after week. The Jewish people complain or sin or...

Parshas Korach – “Two Jews, Three Opinions”

We all nod our heads in agreement when we hear the phrase, "Two Jews, three opinions." We similarly chuckle when we hear the anecdote...

Parshat Korach – Editors Notes

I am writing this from Great Neck. I met a Rabbi who was friendly with Rabbi Abittan z’sl. We were discussing this week’s portion...

Parshas Shelach – “Memory Loss”

When one reaches a certain age, he does not have to be reminded that his memory is not what it used to be. These...

Parshat Shelach Lecha – Double Vision

When two witnesses give the same testimony verbatim, we expect that foul play is afoot. Any good investigator will tell us that in virtually...

Parshas Beha’aloscha – The Root Of Loshon Hara

Miriam’s critique of Moshe Rabbeinu, presented in Bamidbar 12:1,2, is deemed to be the classic case of loshon hara, speaking ill of another; the...

Parshat Beha’alotcha – The Greatest Generation

My daughter Mariyah who is 13 asked me on Shabbat when the next documentary about the community would be out. She recalled that she...

Kabbalah and the Oral Torah

Last week I was praying in a Synagogue when someone came over and sat next to me. He was reading an article which called...

Parshas Bamidbar – To Be Amongst the Counted

This week we begin the Sefer of Bamidbar. "Vay'dabare Hashem el Moshe bamidbar Sinai (And Hashem spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai)...

Parshat Bamidbar – Appreciating Every Individual – Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Maslaton, z’sl,

We begin the book of Bamidbar this week. I am not sure why we call it BaMidbar when the vowels clearly determine that the...

Parshas Bamidbar – Human Nature

The book of Bamidbar is perhaps one of the saddest, so to speak, of all of the Holy Scriptures. Whereas the book of Shemot,...

Parshas Bechukosai – The Power Factor

"Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand..." (26:8) The Torah teaches that when Bnei Yisroel...

Parshat Bechukosai – A Magic Word!

If the following question appeared on your SAT or Math quiz, how would you answer? Five is to a hundred and one hundred is...

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