Divrei Torah Blogs

  Can you imagine what an amazing experience it would have been to stand at Mt. Sinai when God’s presence was right there? When Moses went up the mountain to receive the Torah? From the description in the Torah, it would have been a truly awe-inspiring experience. Everyone there was brought to a very...
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 The Temple was not a place that had “casual Friday’s.” This week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, tells us of all the finery the High Priest, the Cohen Gadol, would wear while going about his official duties. We learn the details of the breastplate, the ephod, the robe, the embroidered coat, the mitre, and the girdle. We...
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 Number 25:11. Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the people of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the people of Israel in my jealousy. There are many troubling aspects to the story of Pinchas, which...
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 “If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them” ...Leviticus 26:3 “If you will walk in my statutes.” This is a rather odd sounding statement. It’s not exactly a commandment to obey the commandments. Here it says “IF you will walk in my statutes…The Kli Yakar points out that we...
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 Acharei Mot 5763 Leviticus 18:3 “You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of Canaan to which I am taking you; nor shall you follow their laws” Back in the days when Nicholas the first was Czar in Russia, the government issued a decree...
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 This week’s Torah portion, Tazria, is largely concerned with the condition of “tza’ra’at,” a skin condition similar in appearance to leprosy. When someone contracted this condition, he went to the Kohen, the priest, for an inspection, and if the Kohen confirmed that the person was in fact afflicted with tza’ra’at, the person was forced...
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