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June 20, 2024

Kindling the Inner Light

Parshat Behaalotecha This week’s haftarah—a selection taken from sefer Zecharya—is the most consistently read of all the haftarot. Although those selections read on the Shabbatot

Devotion

In this week’s Torah portion, Behaalotecha, the parsha opens with a mission that is not only about lighting, but about enlightening too. Aharon HaKohen receives

When We Lose Faith in Ourselves

Faith in Mankind The Jewish people were nervous and scared. Forty days had passed, and Moshe had yet to return from Har Sinai. They approached

Zera Shimshon: Parshas Behaalosecha

וַיִּסְעוּ מֵהַר יְדֹוָד דֶּרֶךְ שְׁלשֶׁת יָמִים וַאֲרוֹן בְּרִית יְדֹוָד נֹסֵעַ לִפְנֵיהֶם דֶּרֶךְ שְׁלשֶׁת יָמִים לָתוּר לָהֶם מְנוּחָה:  וַעֲנַן יְדֹוָד עֲלֵיהֶם יוֹמָם בְּנָסְעָם מִן הַמַּחֲנֶה:  וַיְהִי

Blue Blood: Bava Metzia daf 113

Princes and princesses generally seek to marry other blue-blooded individuals. Such unions are forged by their common aristocratic upbringing and very often serve to form

Between Sinai and Paran

On the 20th of Iyar, 2449, the Children of Israel left Sinai (Bamidbar 10:12) after spending almost a year there. The subsequent places mentioned in

Waiting to Return After Kaddish

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I have started a year of aveilut and hope to recite many Kaddishim. I was

When You Light

Rav Chaim Leib Epstein was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Zichron Meilech in Boro Park for more than 40 years. Having spent the war years

If I Could Be Like…

During my youth, my personal hero was the popular Jewish singer, Avrohom Fried. As a member of Tzlil V’zemer Boys Choir I enjoyed the fact

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