כאילו הוא עצמו יצא ממצריםWe were commanded in the Mitzvah of seeing ourselves כאילו הוא עצמו יצא ממצרים. This does not seem like a simple mitzvah. How can we see ourselves as if we went out of E...

 כל דכפין ייתי וייכול כל דצריך ייתי ויפסחThe “דכפין” guest and the “דצריך” guest.The commentators ask why is the term for need repeated twice, why “דכפין“and also “דצריך”?Sefer “Mareh Cohen” in t...

 Standing at the gates of Mitzraim Chasing the Jewish people out is Pharo. Broken and destroyed, defeated and humiliated he begs Bnei Yisroel to get out as fast as possible- exactly as Hashem tol...

 Noachs “Calling”At the beginning of Parsha when discussing the kind of person Noach was, the Torah says “Tzaddik Bedorosof” meaning righteous in his generation. Rashi brings down two possibiliti...

 In a generation where stealing is an excepted society norm, where adultery is a matter of taste, how can anyone possibly maintain a sense of any moral behavior?Chazal tell us that in the generat...

 The Torah clearly states that the Yom Tov of Sukkas comes to commemorate the “sitting in the Sukka” experience that Bnei Yisroel experienced when they left Mitzrayim.לְמַעַן יֵדְעוּ דֹרֹתֵיכֶם כ...

 במקום שבעלי תשובה עומדים איו צדיקים גמורים יכולים לעמוד (ברכות ל"ד)This can be understood as follows. Tzadikim take the moderate (balanced) path. בעלי תשובה  are leading a life fa...

 אבינו מלכנו מחוק ברחמיך הרבים כל שטרי חובותינוOne of the close associates of the Tolerner Rebbe zt”l recounted an inspiring story he experienced while accompanying his Rebbe back to Bayit Veg...

 שובה ישראל עד ה' אלוקיךChazal tell us “Reuven returned to the pit” (where Yosef was). Where was Reuven originally? He was fasting and repenting.  Hashem said  ‘no man had ever sinne...

                             אל יפטר אלא מתוך דבר הלכהRabbi Yisroel Salanter zt”l during a moment of heartfelt tehuvah befo...

   Yifat Toar   The concept of Yifat Toar is not an easy one to grasp. How can the Torah permit something that the Torah does not approve of, as can clearly be seen from the ...

 Why all the details: In the beginning of this week’s Parsha the Torah promises us tremendous benefit, “Eikev Tishmeun”, loosely translates it means when or because you will listen.  Th...

 Parshas Masei   The Torah commands us not to take bribery because “Hashochad Ye’aver einiey Tzaddikim…” loosely translated, the “bribery will blind the eyes of the righteous etc…”. ...

 Who is the enemy? At the end of Parshas Balak Bnei Yisroel had an unfortunate encounter with Midyon; whereas the daughters of Midyan maliciously seduced Bnei Yisroel to sin, resulting in th...

 There is an old saying that goes like this: “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on you, fool me three times shame on me”. The message behind the saying is simple, w...