It would seem that Shabbos Nachamu and the nechama (comfort) that follows right after Shabbos Chazon and Tisha B’Av is because, within this week, falls

 I once escorted Rav Herschel Schechter, shlita, to Far Rockaway in the summer months. We got into a small discussion about Sefiras Haomer, but more

In my youth, there was an exceptionally talented YU basketball player by the name of Eric Davis. Besides his exceptional talent, he had other standout

It’s interesting that we learn the idea that Chanukah candles can’t be lit at a height of more than 20 amot, from the idea that

In last week’s reading, we witnessed Avimelech who put forth supposed “logical” arguments towards God as to why he was treated unjustly by taking Sarah.

The gematria of middah is 49. This is very logical, as it’s a person’s middot that determines whether he is on the 49th level of

Lech Lecha reminds me of when my father’s first cousin, Rav Avrohom Genechovsky, z’l, “walked” my first cousin and I to see Reb Chaim Kanievsky,

Unkelos translates the word re’eh as chazi, reminding one of the word chazon, the vision of Yeshayahu. When I think of vision, I think of

Va’etchanan brings to mind the prayer-like figures, “seeped in the word chanan,” like Chana and Chanina ben Dosa who were so famously known for their

Rashi, in this week’s parsha, quotes the midrash that it really should have taken the spies double the time to travel the length and width

Einstein posited, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” In this parsha we find an anomaly to

Bnei Yisrael are told to take Terumah for God. The famous question is asked why it doesn’t say natan, to give. Perhaps we could suggest