Parshat Pinchas As we begin the three week period of semi-mourning that precedes Tisha B’Av, so we begin the series of three haftarot of condemnation

Calev’s Message The Jewish people were afraid. The meraglim returned from Eretz Yisrael with a terrifying report. The land was beautiful but inhabited by giants

A young refugee—who had lost his entire family in the Holocaust—and arrived in New York in the mid 1940s, Rav Chaim Tzvi Schwartz was at

Shortly before Pesach vacation began in Heichal HaTorah this year, a conscientious student who takes his spiritual growth seriously asked to speak with me in

Sefer Bamidbar contains two censuses, one at the beginning of the Sefer (taken a year after the Exodus), and one in our Parsha (taken in

In Bava Batra 33a, we encounter Rav Idi bar Avin I, a third-generation Babylonian Amora. His origin story is given in Shabbat 23b. “Rav Huna

Our parsha contains a census of Bnei Yisrael. The Chafetz Chaim focuses on a contrast between the total population count of two tribes—Binyamin and Dan.

As Torah-observant Jews, do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice? Judaism rises and falls on this question. Klal

וְשֵׁם הָאִשָּׁה הַמֻּכָּה הַמִּדְיָנִית כָּזְבִּי בַת צוּר רֹאשׁ אֻמּוֹת בֵּית אָב בְּמִדְיָן הוּא: (במדבר כה:טו) “And the name of the Midianite woman who was slain

The Chovos HaL’vavos in his Shaar Habechina states that looking at the wonders of the world and seeing the incredible intricacy of them all is,

It is said that every time you learn Torah, you learn something new. Despite the number of times I learned or have read Parshat Pinchas,

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Two members of my community asked me a no-tension, monetary halacha question. Reuven Cohen lent