Hidden beneath the surface of parshat Pinchas, the Sages uncovered a story of great poignancy. Moses—having seen his sister and brother die—knew that his own
Part II This past June, I was honored to lead TABC’s 22nd annual voluntary post-finals Torah learning. It was deeply moving to see 25 talmidim
Our current war is an existential struggle over Jewish survival and Jewish identity. The curtain has been lifted as our enemies no longer speak about
This week is my granddaughter Etty’s second birthday. She’s named after my mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Ita Singer, a”h. I remember holding her as a newborn in
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
