Picking up on the words “v’di zahav” in the first pasuk in our parsha, the Gemara (Berachot 32) says that Moshe Rabbeinu was coming to

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After the first case of murder in history, the murderer was confronted by God Himself. “Where is your brother, Hevel?” God asked. To which Cain,

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In a well-documented tale, Napoleon once observed French Jews sitting on the floor of a synagogue, mourning their lost Temple. He was amazed at this

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The combination of these two sections of the Torah constitutes the question, raised by all the commentators over the ages, as to whether there really

It is almost as if Parshat Matot is trying to be ironic. We read in the preceding parsha about Tzelofchad’s daughters’ desire and effort to

B’nei Gad v’Reuvain asked Moshe to settle in a land that would help their livestock thrive. They said, we shall build “pens for the flock…and

Yoma 73b, 79a Sitting next to my father, the rabbi, on the synagogue dais on Yom Kippur morning, I wondered how long I could last

I have the privilege of teaching a few halachot in between Mincha and Maariv each day, and lately we have been reviewing the laws of

Dov and Ayala, two friends, were walking home from school when it started to rain. They were wearing short sleeves and they didn’t even have