Monthly Archives: May 2016

Covenant Relationship


But the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for HASHEM; do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard. Leviticus 25:4 Giving to others without the hope of reward, generosity of spirit, trust in the Holy One, peace, good will, fertility of […]

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Preservation of The Nation


Shabbat Shalom!

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On The Mountain


Come! Let us go up a to the Mountain of the L-rd!

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For The Sake Of Life


One who remains stiff necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed–without remedy.  ~Proverbs 29:1 The wise Solomon knew human nature so well. Man is subject to temptation, and may be unable at times to resist his drives. But as long as he is receptive to guidance and respects the […]

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The “Drifter”


When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not complete your reaping to the corner of your field, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not take. You shall not pick the undeveloped twigs of your vineyard; and the fallen fruit of your vineyard you shall not […]

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Be Holy


  The thirtieth reading from the Torah and seventh reading from Leviticus is named Kedoshim (קדושים), which mean “holy.” The title comes from the words in Leviticus 19:2, which says, “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.” Leviticus 19 describes the holy community through a series of […]

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Guard My Charge


  From the Sages, “One should not say ‘ I cannot stand the meat of swine.’ Instead one should say, ‘I desire it, but my Heavenly Father has forbidden it’” (Toras Kohanim cited by Rashi, Leviticus 20:26) “If one abstains from forbidden foods because they are repulsive, then if something […]

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Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Torah!


The Holocaust envelopes the sum total of anti-Jewish actions carried out by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The German Jews were stripped of their legal economic status in the 1930’s, segregated and starved in various occupied countries. Close to 6 million Jews were murdered. The biblical word Shoah, שואה, means […]

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After The Death


  If not that Your Torah was my delight, I would have perished in my affliction ~ Psalm 119:92 The Rabbi of Rizhin made a frightening prediction. “A day will come,” he said, “when ignorance will reign. Mediocre men will feel at ease on earth and above, while men of […]

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