by Mordechai Hadad | Jul 3, 2019
Preparing for the Geula By Mordechai Hadad Former Shaliach in Montreal (2016-17) Currently a student in Ariel University As we get closer to Pesach, we prepare ourselves and our homes in various ways for the “festival of freedom”. The preparations that most quickly...
by Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Apr 1, 2019
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman Former Rosh Kollel in Kansas City (1998-00) Currently Head of English Dept in Machon Puah נגאלו ישראל ממצרים בערב, ויצאו ביום
by Rabbi Yehuda Susman | Apr 1, 2019
Rabbi Yehuda Susman Former Rosh Kollel in Chicago (2000-2002) Currently Rosh Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi Of Cannabis and Kitnios: On the Development of a Minhag
by Arik Speaker | Apr 10, 2018
Arik Speaker Head of the International Mechina, World Bnei Akiva . Happy birthday to … us! Sometimes the connection between two stories, figures or pssukim in the Torah is not very obvious – but, like we see so many times in the Gemara, when you “scratch”...
by Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig | Apr 22, 2017
Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig Former Rosh Kollel Melbourne (2006-2009) Currently Community Rabbi in Beit Shemesh When Good Intentions are not enough This week, in both the parsha and the haftara, we are confronted with an uncomfortable truth: contrary to popular...
by Rabbi Herzl Hefter | Apr 20, 2017
Rav Herzl Hefter Former Rosh Kollel in Cleveland (1995-1997) Source Sheets Shmini – audio class
by Rabbi Herzl Hefter | Mar 30, 2016
Rav Herzl Hefter Former Rosh Kollel in Cleveland (1995-1997) Source Sheets Aharon – audio class
by Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger | Mar 30, 2016
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger Former Shaliach in Boca Raton (1999-2007) Currently Executive Director and Community Rabbinic Scholar of Dallas Kollel Not Just the Tuba, the Full Orchestra Unbeknownst to me, the girl I asked to my senior prom was an observer of the...
by Yehoshua Stokar | Jun 7, 2015
Just from the name of this week’s Parsha (“Shmini”), we get a hint that there is something special about the number 8. The number 8 in Judaism is what is called a typological number – in other words, it is not just a number but it is also a symbol. In order to...
by Itzik Amar | Jun 3, 2015
Am Yisrael waited a long time for the completion of the Mishkan. Months had been spent investing immense effort into the minute details of its construction. Each brick had to be in its proper place, each of the keilim had to be precisely the size Hashem had...