Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai wrote the Zohar, a book that contains the deep hidden secrets of the Torah. One of the key lessons he taught

 Parshat Behar As is true with the bulk of sefer Vayikra, this week’s parsha contains no historical events nor any personal story, only specific laws

רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר, הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה דּוֹמֶה לִפְרוֹזְדוֹר בִּפְנֵי הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא. הַתְקֵן עַצְמְךָ בַפְּרוֹזְדוֹר, כְּדֵי שֶׁתִּכָּנֵס לַטְּרַקְלִין: הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, יָפָה שָׁעָה אַחַת בִּתְשׁוּבָה וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים

It states in our parsha (25:39-40), “If your brother becomes impoverished with you and is sold to you; you shall not work him with slave

Having recently completed a trip abroad, it left me thinking about the Torah’s approach to traveling. Is it a good thing to see other countries,

Even though Sefer Vayikra starts with God calling to Moshe in the Mishkan (Vayikra 1:1), the communication that opens Parshas Behar (25:1) takes place on

We all put up walls. But there are different kinds of walls. There are walls of distrust that we put up around ourselves as protection

The Gemara on Bava Metzia 80b discusses a later mishna (98b): “A borrower tells the lender שַׁלַּח—‘Send me the cow you promised to lend, with

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Summary after follow-up questions: The apartment we are moving into has an open balcony (mirpeset),

A number of years ago, on the final day of Pesach at the beginning of my pre-Yizkor derasha, I related that Mickey Mantle, the legendary

אֶת־כַּסְפְּךָ לֹא־תִתֵּן לוֹ בְּנֶשֶׁךְ וּבְמַרְבִּית לֹא־תִתֵּן אָכְלֶךָ׃ (ויקרא כה:לז) “Do not lend him your money with added interest, or give him your food with added

Avraham said before the Holy One Blessed be He, “Perhaps Israel will sin before You and then you will do unto them as You did