The Ramban (Devarim 25:3, citing the Midrash Tanchuma Bamidbar 23) offers two reasons why the Torah calls specifically for the administration of 40 lashes—malkot arbaim,

As summer turns to autumn, the Hebrew month of Elul sweeps in, bringing with it a tide of hope and renewal. This month marks the

Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein zt”l once told a real eye-opening story. Chana was born blind and wondered how she would ever get married. When she was

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Parshat Ki Teitzei There is very little to add to the short message expressed in this week’s haftarah. The 10 verses describe so beautifully the

In Bava Batra 83a, Rabbi Yirmeya raises two dilemmas. Shmuel had earlier specified a distance between a set of three trees to be considered one

The current discord and rifts within Klal Yisrael pose a huge challenge, undermining our fundamental identification as “goy echad ba’aretz —one nation in the land,”and

Bava Batra 28a, 42a “Excuse me, you are sitting in my seat.” How many times have we been asked to move while deep in prayer

I have been attending summer camp for over three decades. I have been a camper, masmid, office boy, junior counselor, counselor, learning rebbe, head waiter,

Our parsha states: “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the congregation of Hashem, to eternity, because of the fact that they did not greet

We first met Ammon and Moav in Sefer Bereishis (19:36-38), had a rough encounter with Moav in Sefer Bamidbar (22:2-4, 25:1-3), were told in Sefer