Rock of Ages let our song, Praise thy saving power; Thou amidst the raging foes, Wast our sheltering tower.
Posted on January 29, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky | Series: Drasha | Level: Beginner “Don’t get mad,” said the philosophers of the eighties, “get even.” I am not sure if the objective of the ten plagues was for the Almighty to get even with the nation that had enslaved His people. Certainly there…
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…
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with 48 ways. These are: … (22) trust in the Sages… In the previous class we began to discuss the importance of “trusting” the Sages. As we explained, “trust” implies a…
Posted on January 24, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Label Lam | Series: Dvar Torah | Level: Beginner HASHEM said to Moshe, “Pharaoh’s heart is heavy; he has refused to let the people out. (Shemos 7:14) Here is a $64,000 question! Why is Pharaoh refusing to let the Jewish People go? Why is he so contrary…
Posted on January 23, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein | Series: Be’er Moshe | Level: Advanced I have heard the groans of the Bnei Yisrael whom Mitrayim enslaves.[2] Did we not already know that it was the Egyptians who enslaved the Jews? Would it not have been more appropriate to simply say, “I have…
<!–DEVICE–> These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1321 – Should You Make a Bracha on Seeing President Donald Trump? Good Shabbos! The Key to Solving Personal Challenges Is to Help Someone Else With That Challenge A wealthy Jew who had fallen…
“Hashem spoke to Moshe and Aharon and commanded them regarding the Children of Israel….” (6:13) The Talmud Yerushalmi relates that prior to leaving Mitzrayim, Hashem commanded Moshe to teach Bnei Yisroel the details involved in fulfilling the mitzva of “shiluach avadim” – “emancipation of slaves”.[1] However, the laws connected to slavery were not pertinent to…
HE LED FOR one term. But when he refused to turn against the Jews, they got rid of him and forced him from office. But when he decided he liked being king more, he accepted the role and made the lives of the Jews a living hell. The ally had become the enemy. Sound familiar?…
This week we read the parsha of Vaera . In last week’s parsha, Moshe’s first appearance before Paroah to demand freedom for his people, Bnei Yisroel {the Children of Israel}, had led to a harshening of the conditions. The same quota of bricks was being demanded with the straw no longer being provided. Moshe was…
Yechezkel 28:25The theme of the Exodus is the Jew and the Egyptian recognizing G-d’s absolute mastery over all things. The nature of a slave / master relationship is for the slave to be dependent on the master and the master to feel a proprietorship over the slave. At the time of the Exodus, Pharoah had…