How are such people (who are spiritually “sick”) healed? A person who for example has a bad temper should act as follows: If he is struck or cursed, he should not take it to heart at all (‘lo yargish’ — he should not feel it). He should continue to act in this manner for a…

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: # 1320 – Sitting Next to Someone Who is Davening Sh’moneh Esria –Is it Permitted? Good Shabbos! Dissension and Lashon Harah Undermine the Zechus of the Klal The Medrash says in the beginning of Sefer…

Paroh’s daughter went down to bathe…She saw the basket…opened it and saw him…and a youth was crying…She took pity on him and said, “This one is from the Jewish babies.”[2] Where did this pity come from, that was so foreign to what she observed in the house of her evil father, who daily bathed in…

This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Shemos {Names} with Parshas Shemos. “V’aileh shemos {these are the names} of Bnei Yisroel {the Children of Israel} who came down to Mitzrayim. [1:1]” A few weeks ago I had the tremendous zechus {merit} to perform something so simple but unfortunately, very rare. My mother, who married…

“…and she sent her maidservant and she took it” (2:5) The Torah relates that Pharaoh’s daughter Bisya went down to bathe in the Nile River, and upon seeing a basket floating amongst the reeds, “vatishlach es amasa”; the plain meaning of the text is that she sent her “amah” – “maidservant” to bring the basket…