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Purim is called by the name Yom HaKippurim… Zohar Purim and Yom Kippur, two seemingly opposite days, are really related to each other, according to the Zohar. The letter CHOF, as a prefix, which means “like”, would indicate that Yom Kippur is compared to Purim. We would say that a child resembles his father and…

Posted on March 12, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Pinchas Winston | Series: Pirkei Avos | Level: Beginner AT FIRST IT might not seem that there is very much connecting this week’s parsha and Purim, other than the fact they are both on the same day this year. Until, that is, we recall that the Machtzis-Hashekel…

Melachim I 18:1–39 Hashem’s Boundless Mercy We know that Hashem’s attributes of mercy and compassion reach far beyond our human comprehension. Chazal cite proof to this from Hashem’s re-acceptance of His beloved nation even after its shameful participation in the infamous golden calf that we read about in this week’s Parsha. Chazal learn from this…

This week we read parshas Ki Tisa. The central happening of this parsha is the chait ha’egel {the sin of the golden calf} and the ensuing discussion between Hashem and Moshe about how that event would affect the way Hashem would deal with Klal Yisroel {the Nation of Israel}. This is very applicable to the…

“Hashem passed before him and proclaimed…”(34:6) After shattering the Tablets in reaction to witnessing Bnei Yisroel worshipping the Golden Calf, Moshe prayed on their behalf and saved them from destruction. Hashem then agreed to give Bnei Yisroel a second set of Tablets. When Moshe ascended the mountain to receive these Tablets, Hashem taught Moshe the…

Posted on March 12, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Naftali Reich | Series: Legacy | Level: Beginner A strange thing happened after Moses brought down the second set of tablets from Mount Sinai. The people took one glance at him, and they had to turn away. His face had begun to glow with a transcendent celestial…

Posted on March 12, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky | Series: Drasha | Level: Beginner In the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf, Moshe’s mortality is transformed to immortality as — anthropomorphic as it may sound — he gets G-d to change his mind. Hashem, who had threatened to destroy Klall Yisrael…

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: … (30) loving mankind, (31) loving righteousness… (30) Loving mankind (lit., loves the creations): The scholar is someone who, besides loving G-d and His Torah, loves…

Now you shall command the Children of Israel that they should take for you pure, pressed olive oil for illumination, to kindle the lamp continuously. (Shemos 27:20) Pressed: He presses the olives in a mortar and does not grind them with millstones so that there should not be any sediment. After he has obtained the…

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1326 Wearing A Gartel? Are the Chasidim Right? Good Shabbos! The pasuk in Parshas Tezaveh says, “You shall take the two shoham stones and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel.” (Shemos…