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Shelach Lecha: Desiring What Is Forbidden
“Kids, we’re going to visit Grandma and Grandpa, let’s get ready!” You shout up the stairs. “I’m not coming!” Your ten-year-old fights back. “Don’t be silly, we’re all getting in the car now!” “But I hate Grandma and Grandpa’s house. It’s so boring and there’s nothing to do, and they’re so old…!” “Right,” you say,…
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Beha’alotcha: It’s the Wonderful Manna
Amidst our journey through the desert, guided by the Heavenly pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night, the nation is sustained by manna falling from the sky. Food descending from the clouds? It sounds like something surreal. But this was our reality, we lived directly under Hashem’s love and care, receiving…
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Bamidbar: A True Household Leader
Rav Chaim Vital writes that the way in which a husband treats his wife is a reflection of all of his middot (character traits). Regardless of how he interacts with the outside world, the way a man conducts himself inside his home is the mark of his true essence. When doors are closed, when study…
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Behar: A Godly Vision
There are some decisions in life that just seem so obvious. Should we move to a warm community or an unfriendly one? Send to an excellent school or a poor one? Or even, should we buy a pretty dress or an ugly one? You may have just been thinking; well, there must be an issue…
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Emor: The Torah Definition of Chinuch
It is our responsibility, as parents and teachers, to watch over our young who are truly the kohanim of the world..
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Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Giving and Receiving Rebuke with Grace
The pasuk (Vayikra 19:17) commands us to rebuke our fellow Jew. Rebuke, the translation of the word tochacha, does not do full justice to the term. Tochacha is not merely a lecture or nagging or criticism, it is loving, gentle and personalised guidance to serving Hashem better. It must be done only from compassion and…
