April 24, 2025

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Divrei Torah

Spontaneity: Good or Bad?

Shemini tells the tragic story of how the great inauguration of the Tabernacle—a day about which the Sages said that God rejoiced as much as

Women and Havdala

Women and Kiddush While the Gemara (Brachot 20b) states that women are obligated in kiddush, it does not discuss whether they are obligated in Havdala.

Sefira and Redemption

The period of Sefirat HaOmer links Pesach to Matan Torah and includes the days of commemoration of our present-day miraculous return to Zion, creating an

Iyar: Continuations

Rav Yehuda Amital, zt”l was a unique visionary and builder of Torah. After his family was killed in Auschwitz, Rav Amital came to Eretz Yisrael,

Profaning the Holy

Parshat Shemini Like the episode found in our parsha, our haftarah relates the story of a very special day—a day of celebration for Israel, when

Worrying About Flying Camels

In Makkot 5a, Rava might be worried about a flying camel. He says: “If two witnesses say, ‘Ploni killed someone on Sunday morning in Sura,’

The Day After

“And it was on the eighth day … ” So begins our parsha of Shemini, which describes the tragic death of the tzaddikim Nadav and

Shemini

The first pasuk of Shemini has a funny thing to say, it says the Mishkan was opened on the eighth day. That statement says an

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