Stop the Bloodshed!
Rabbi Zvi Teichman With the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Israel, the holy soil of our land has once again been stained with innocent and pure blood. Our enemy’s insatiable thirst for our blood has ignited an explosion of hatred and a frenzy of wanton murder. Yet from the moment Noach and his family […]
Parshas Noach
Rabbi Berel Wein The greater a person is or believes he or she is, the smaller the room for error in one’s life decisions. Had Noach been merely Mr. Noach, his choice of beginning the world again with a vineyard and wine would have been acceptable and even understandable. After all, the trauma of the […]
Parshas Haazinu
Rabbi Berel Wein The special nature and all of the events of Jewish history are outlined for us in this week’s parsha. Ramban in the 13th century comments that anyone who can, so many centuries earlier, accurately foretell the later fate of a people is an exceptional prophet. Moshe certainly fits that description and test. […]
Parshas Vayelech
Rabbi Berel Wein The parsha of Vayelech is the parsha that contains the smallest number of verses – only thirty – of any other parsha in the Torah. It also is the parsha that usually coincides with Shabbat Shuva, the holy Shabbat between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The words of the parsha are part […]
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Parshas Nitzavim
Rabbi Berel Wein In emphasizing once again the eternal validity of G-d’s covenant with the Jewish people, Moshe addresses his words to the entire nation. All classes of society are included in the covenant – the heads of the people, the judges, the wealthy and powerful, the poor, menial and manual laborers, and those whochop […]
Considering Teshuva
Rabbi Zvi Teichman In one of the last pre-covid community-wide events, I had the privilege of serving on a panel of Rabbonim, dear friends, in a public forum entitled ‘Considering Teshuva’. Two of the questions I was asked to address regarded the issues of dealing with the inevitable slumps one faces in this yearly, most […]
Ki Savo
Rabbi Berel Wein One of the bitterest curses that the Torah describes in the tochacha, which forms a major portion of this parsha, is that all our efforts will be for naught, all our ambitions, ideas and struggles ultimately pointless and of no lasting value, unless we build strong family ties and encourage harmony. There […]
Let’s Call a Spade a Spade
Rabbi Zvi Teichman When going out in battle against their enemies there is a vital tool that must not only accompany the soldiers at all times, but must also be placed in the exact location on their belts, the left side, where their swords were suspended from. (תרגום יהונתן, לקח טוב) ויתד תהיה (דברים כג […]
Parshas Ki Teitzei
Rabbi Berel Wein This week’s Torah reading begins with all the ills that can befall a domestic society. These include lust and exploitation of other human beings, especially women by men in a dominant male society, unhappy marriages, dysfunctional families and disputes over inheritances that wreck family life. Seriously troubled, rebellious, and violent children that […]
