‘Bezechus HaTorah’ program will provide bachurim with a unique opportunity.

We are living in unprecedented times! Since Purim, many of our holy yeshivos have not been functioning regularly. Although, baruch Hashem, in some places throughout America there has been great improvement,

Two years ago, I was in Eretz Yisrael the week before Parshas Masei. I took my son, Naftoli, for a jeep ride and tour of the Judean Desert. Our veteran tour guide, Benzie, drove us over the dunes to the top of a hill. The view was breathtaking. “Look below,’’ said Bentzie, “and you’ll see the city of Yericho and beyond that the

It never ends!! If it’s not one thing, it’s another. At the tail end of his life, having weathered 40 years of complaints, rebellions and near-disasters, Moshe had every reason to expect a tranquil conclusion to his legendary career. Having appointed his successor and eased the Jewish people to the border of Israel, he can now focus on

In Bamidbar (Chapter 26) we are given a breakdown of the population of each tribe that was counted in the census after the plague. The population of the tribe of Dan was 64,400 while the population of the tribe of Benjamin (Binyamin) was noted to be 45,600. This means that the tribe of Dan was more than a third larger than the

Chazal in Bava Batra tells us that Moses wrote his book, the book of Job and “Parshat Bilaam.” That Moshe wrote (down) the Torah is stated explicitly in the Torah. Writing the Book of Job, while seemingly offhand and odd-sounding, does make sense in the context of Moses’ career of struggle with himself, his people (including his

He had it! He told himself he wouldn’t eat another pint of Haagen-Dazs in one sitting. But what could he do? After another stressful day he just wanted a couple scoops, but as fate would have it, those couple scoops turned into an entire pint. In a state of frustration and anger at himself, he vowed to never touch ice cream again.